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 Namibia and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Slits,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun City Girls,
Monolake,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Faust,
Los Fastidios,
The Real Kids,
Colin Newman,
Von Mondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
Nas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ituana,
Godley & Creme,
Yaz,
Wings,
La Düsseldorf,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul Sonic Force,
The J.B.'s,
The Vogues,
The Fortunes,
Lou Christie,
Kurtis Blow,
Intrusion,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Angry Samoans,
Scrapy,
David Axelrod,
June of 44,
Siglo XX,
FM Einheit,
Magazine,
Dark Day,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Reed,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skriet,
Stiv Bators,
A Certain Ratio,
The Knickerbockers,
Michelle Simonal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pretty Things,
The Gladiators,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scion,
Kenny Larkin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reagan Youth,
Deakin,
The Black Dice,
Jeff Lynne,
Derrick Morgan,
Gastr Del Sol,
UT,
The Birthday Party,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.