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 Fiji and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Lower 48 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Big Daddy Kane,
Skriet,
Dark Day,
Spoonie Gee,
Graham Central Station,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Y Pants,
Fatback Band,
Lakeside,
Shoche,
The Young Rascals,
Subhumans,
The New Christs,
cv313,
The Cramps,
Funky Four + One,
Hoover,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare,
Loose Ends,
Rotary Connection,
Kenny Larkin,
Little Man,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fat Boys,
Organ,
Radiohead,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Intrusion,
The Associates,
Bill Wells,
David McCallum,
Rapeman,
The Beau Brummels,
Schoolly D,
Oblivians,
Gregory Isaacs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Johnny Clarke,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flash Fearless,
Lindisfarne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Khruangbin,
Brothers Johnson,
Cal Tjader,
Infiniti,
The Sound,
Country Teasers,
Girls At Our Best!,
kango's stein massive,
Pagans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Second Layer,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.