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 Greece 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Kas Product to the rap 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cheater Slicks,
Franke,
Symarip,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sandy B,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Angels of Light,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fall,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sarah Menescal,
The Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
The Sound,
Yazoo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Circle Jerks,
Spandau Ballet,
Negative Approach,
Flash Fearless,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quantec,
Althea and Donna,
The Cowsills,
The Kinks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marvin Gaye,
CMW,
Hasil Adkins,
Patti Smith,
Faraquet,
The Misunderstood,
Mr. Review,
The Wake,
Agitation Free,
Fad Gadget,
Ludus,
Audionom,
Erasure,
Oblivians,
Lyres,
The Searchers,
MDC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Wyatt,
Dave Gahan,
Todd Terry,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gichy Dan,
Ice-T,
Fugazi,
Bobby Womack,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.