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 Tanzania and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb 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 Roy Ayers to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
The New Christs,
Peter and Kerry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sound,
Tomorrow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suburban Knight,
Robert Wyatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erasure,
Organ,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gastr Del Sol,
Funky Four + One,
Television,
Pussy Galore,
Brand Nubian,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rekid,
Patti Smith,
Nas,
Model 500,
Visage,
Brass Construction,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
JFA,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
Panda Bear,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultra Naté,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Duran Duran,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minny Pops,
Shuggie Otis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
Delta 5,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barrington Levy,
MDC,
Max Romeo,
Pierre Henry,
Excepter,
The Trojans,
This Heat,
Nils Olav,
Unwound,
The Martian,
Arthur Verocai,
Toni Rubio,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.