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 Bulgaria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Magma to the grime 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
David McCallum,
AZ,
E-Dancer,
CMW,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Last Poets,
Can,
Skaos,
James White and The Blacks,
Smog,
Ronnie Foster,
World's Most,
Eddi Front,
Grey Daturas,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
Nils Olav,
The Fuzztones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Niagra,
Jawbox,
Qualms,
Amon Düül II,
Moss Icon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
Black Bananas,
Wire,
Das Ding,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare,
Franke,
Fluxion,
Mo-Dettes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kaleidoscope,
Parry Music,
Hasil Adkins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
Man Parrish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harmonia,
Terry Callier,
The Leaves,
Whodini,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young,
Goldenarms,
Ronan,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.