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 Syria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Babytalk to the rock 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Sound Behaviour,
Delta 5,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
The Misunderstood,
Brand Nubian,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Adolescents,
Warsaw,
Agitation Free,
Mr. Review,
Janne Schatter,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
Lakeside,
Oneida,
Kenny Larkin,
PIL,
Black Flag,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scott Walker,
Henry Cow,
The Associates,
Danielle Patucci,
Pere Ubu,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scrapy,
Loose Ends,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Spandau Ballet,
Panda Bear,
Agent Orange,
Main Source,
Piero Umiliani,
Camberwell Now,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Pop Group,
Newcleus,
Japan,
Parry Music,
Big Daddy Kane,
Section 25,
Jerry's Kids,
Liliput,
Sun City Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
The Slits,
Easy Going,
Slick Rick,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Wells,
La Düsseldorf,
Crispian St. Peters,
UT,
D'Angelo,
The United States of America,
Severed Heads,
Boredoms,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.