Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Croatia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Index to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Hood,
Brass Construction,
Animal Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mandrill,
Royal Trux,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dennis Brown,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Shoche,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Wake,
Soft Machine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Angry Samoans,
Surgeon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oblivians,
Sonic Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
Infiniti,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kenny Larkin,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Iggy Pop,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool Moe Dee,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minnie Riperton,
Rod Modell,
Moby Grape,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rekid,
Alison Limerick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Parry Music,
The Offenders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Sheep,
Crime,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rufus Thomas,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.