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 Botswana and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Wolf Eyes to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Amazonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fear,
Fluxion,
Gang Starr,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cybotron,
Flash Fearless,
The Dave Clark Five,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
H. Thieme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gang Green,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cowsills,
Heaven 17,
Technova,
Circle Jerks,
Jerry's Kids,
Pagans,
Eli Mardock,
Eden Ahbez,
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
Reuben Wilson,
The Five Americans,
Robert Hood,
Minny Pops,
Grey Daturas,
Peter & Gordon,
Chris & Cosey,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
MDC,
Black Moon,
John Coltrane,
The Zeros,
Kaleidoscope,
the Normal,
The Evens,
Darondo,
Gong,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
Yusef Lateef,
Ludus,
the Swans,
Model 500,
DJ Style,
In Retrospect,
The Moleskins,
Mandrill,
Drexciya,
Fat Boys,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.