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 Russia 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Skriet to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Starr,
Blake Baxter,
the Human League,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Piero Umiliani,
The Modern Lovers,
One Last Wish,
Peter & Gordon,
David Axelrod,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Malaria!,
Derrick Morgan,
PIL,
Lakeside,
Grey Daturas,
The Slits,
Harry Pussy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sound Behaviour,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mantronix,
Spoonie Gee,
Joyce Sims,
The American Breed,
The Last Poets,
F. McDonald,
Model 500,
Agent Orange,
The Gun Club,
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Neil Young,
Iggy Pop,
Bauhaus,
Nas,
Eric Copeland,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Moody Blues,
The Fortunes,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash,
L. Decosne,
Mars,
Whodini,
Stockholm Monsters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Davy DMX,
The Toasters,
the Swans,
The Fuzztones,
The Gladiators,
Swans,
Reagan Youth,
Soft Cell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
kango's stein massive,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.