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 Maldives and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Skatalites to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Bowie,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
Von Mondo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Cramps,
The Five Americans,
Vainqueur,
Skarface,
Desert Stars,
Crash Course in Science,
Whodini,
Wire,
In Retrospect,
Metal Thangz,
Easy Going,
Arcadia,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Main Source,
Symarip,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chris & Cosey,
La Düsseldorf,
The Golliwogs,
Ronan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Das Ding,
The Standells,
David Axelrod,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minnie Riperton,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ludus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker,
the Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Wake,
Livin' Joy,
Yazoo,
Adolescents,
Dark Day,
B.T. Express,
The Dead C,
The J.B.'s,
Sister Nancy,
Gong,
Newcleus,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
X-101,
Banda Bassotti,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.