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 Mauritania and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Yusef Lateef to the funk 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
the Soft Cell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harmonia,
Dennis Brown,
Soulsonic Force,
Lungfish,
Arab on Radar,
Mars,
Eve St. Jones,
This Heat,
Mr. Review,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Monochrome Set,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
U.S. Maple,
Circle Jerks,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
Nik Kershaw,
OOIOO,
Toni Rubio,
Danielle Patucci,
Jawbox,
Black Moon,
Main Source,
The Divine Comedy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Oblivians,
Faraquet,
Fluxion,
Ohio Players,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lower 48,
Supertramp,
the Fania All-Stars,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mad Mike,
Lou Christie,
The Smoke,
Joey Negro,
The Sound,
Cal Tjader,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Modern Lovers,
Loose Ends,
The Durutti Column,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radiohead,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Theoretical Girls,
Icehouse,
a-ha,
Kaleidoscope,
Scratch Acid,
Ossler,
Hashim,
Massinfluence,
Roxy Music,
Bronski Beat,
the Bar-Kays,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.