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 Belarus and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 Delon & Dalcan to the crunk 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Misunderstood,
The Martian,
Animal Collective,
Joyce Sims,
Sun Ra,
The Leaves,
Swans,
a-ha,
Joe Finger,
Newcleus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Porter Ricks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mo-Dettes,
Chris & Cosey,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sparks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crispy Ambulance,
Hoover,
Rufus Thomas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Al Stewart,
Alice Coltrane,
Funkadelic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lakeside,
ABC,
Alison Limerick,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Seeds,
The Human League,
June Days,
Minny Pops,
KRS-One,
Amazonics,
The Zeros,
Oblivians,
Cybotron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
In Retrospect,
Aaron Thompson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick May,
Japan,
Drive Like Jehu,
David McCallum,
Piero Umiliani,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bang On A Can,
Gang Green,
Hot Snakes,
Gang Starr,
Simply Red,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.