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 Sweden and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Evens,
The Selecter,
Minny Pops,
The Gladiators,
Bill Wells,
Porter Ricks,
Kerri Chandler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
Nik Kershaw,
Suburban Knight,
Magazine,
the Normal,
Hashim,
Susan Cadogan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
Joyce Sims,
The Last Poets,
Ice-T,
Cheater Slicks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Qualms,
KRS-One,
Kool Moe Dee,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
The American Breed,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
Agitation Free,
Dual Sessions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Swans,
Sixth Finger,
Oblivians,
Isaac Hayes,
MC5,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Smoke,
The Gories,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Davy DMX,
X-101,
The Mojo Men,
Swans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Chris & Cosey,
U.S. Maple,
Moby Grape,
Skriet,
Excepter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.