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 Slovakia and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Ornette Coleman to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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?
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joe Finger,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scientists,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Pop Group,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fatback Band,
Adolescents,
Rufus Thomas,
Franke,
Groovy Waters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
B.T. Express,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stockholm Monsters,
H. Thieme,
Camberwell Now,
Bronski Beat,
Idris Muhammad,
Lucky Dragons,
Fad Gadget,
New Age Steppers,
Reagan Youth,
David Axelrod,
Cybotron,
Derrick May,
The Vogues,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bill Wells,
Sandy B,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
CMW,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joy Division,
Arcadia,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sarah Menescal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quadrant,
Ronan,
Lyres,
Lightning Bolt,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter and Kerry,
48th St. Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cymande,
The Trojans,
Make Up,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Don Cherry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.