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 St Lucia and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Main Source to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rod Modell,
Leonard Cohen,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott Heron,
cv313,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeru the Damaja,
Parry Music,
Lungfish,
Fela Kuti,
Crime,
Y Pants,
Zapp,
E-Dancer,
The New Christs,
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick May,
The Vogues,
Eric Dolphy,
Average White Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wolf Eyes,
Skaos,
T. Rex,
The Count Five,
Easy Going,
Morten Harket,
Panda Bear,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Black Pus,
Eve St. Jones,
Black Flag,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wasted Youth,
The Stooges,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rekid,
Nico,
Technova,
Royal Trux,
Franke,
Soulsonic Force,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fire Engines,
The Dirtbombs,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
Von Mondo,
Wire,
Urselle,
Toni Rubio,
Schoolly D,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Real Kids,
The Velvet Underground,
Junior Murvin,
Los Fastidios,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.