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 Greece and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin 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 Boz Scaggs to the punk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Goldenarms,
Japan,
Hardrive,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Albert Ayler,
Whodini,
The Gap Band,
Hoover,
Bluetip,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gabor Szabo,
Jandek,
F. McDonald,
Derrick Morgan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Desert Stars,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
Pole,
Mantronix,
Johnny Osbourne,
Byron Stingily,
Anakelly,
Pere Ubu,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scion,
Bill Near,
Infiniti,
EPMD,
Fatback Band,
Tubeway Army,
John Coltrane,
Guru Guru,
Tomorrow,
Jeff Lynne,
Joy Division,
The Mummies,
Zapp,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Procol Harum,
A Certain Ratio,
Pierre Henry,
Negative Approach,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Magazine,
Rufus Thomas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bill Wells,
Motorama,
the Sonics,
The Moody Blues,
The Fall,
The Doors,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.