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 Costa Rica and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Portland and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Saints to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Josef K,
Pole,
Roy Ayers,
Audionom,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Christie,
Guru Guru,
Urselle,
John Foxx,
cv313,
Whodini,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Buckinghams,
The Walker Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Monolake,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skarface,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dave Gahan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Iggy Pop,
Vainqueur,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bad Manners,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sixth Finger,
Freddie Wadling,
Don Cherry,
Scan 7,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Zero Boys,
Moby Grape,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Pulsallama,
Supertramp,
Black Bananas,
The Searchers,
Reuben Wilson,
New Age Steppers,
Bronski Beat,
Cal Tjader,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultra Naté,
The Dirtbombs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Sneak,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Birthday Party,
Scion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
These Immortal Souls,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.