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 Angola and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
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 spring reverb 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Prince Buster,
Barbara Tucker,
Connie Case,
The Buckinghams,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
Minor Threat,
X-101,
E-Dancer,
Index,
Susan Cadogan,
Surgeon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June of 44,
Todd Terry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crooked Eye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cluster,
The Toasters,
Nik Kershaw,
Youth Brigade,
Marvin Gaye,
kango's stein massive,
Traffic Nightmare,
U.S. Maple,
Jeff Lynne,
Newcleus,
Pulsallama,
The Knickerbockers,
Rotary Connection,
Crime,
Bill Wells,
Matthew Halsall,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fugs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sandy B,
The Offenders,
A Certain Ratio,
D'Angelo,
Alphaville,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lyres,
Kerri Chandler,
Cal Tjader,
Glenn Branca,
The Dirtbombs,
Derrick Morgan,
June Days,
Pagans,
Moebius,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Moby Grape,
Brass Construction,
Roy Ayers,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.