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 Malta and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 harpsichord 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 Smog to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Soulsonic Force,
Average White Band,
Eurythmics,
Lalann,
The Gap Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Quantec,
John Lydon,
Swell Maps,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
Suburban Knight,
Black Pus,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Byrd,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Smoke,
The Grass Roots,
Soft Cell,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Style,
Mark Hollis,
Brothers Johnson,
Procol Harum,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Remains,
Scratch Acid,
Sight & Sound,
David Axelrod,
The Slackers,
Idris Muhammad,
Ralphi Rosario,
U.S. Maple,
Todd Terry,
Lyres,
Delta 5,
Grandmaster Flash,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Finger,
Donald Byrd,
Buzzcocks,
Connie Case,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Charles Mingus,
The Blues Magoos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aswad,
Model 500,
The Beau Brummels,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Pantytec,
Radio Birdman,
DJ Sneak,
The Motions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ludus,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.