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 El Salvador and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 DNA 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Spoonie Gee,
The Index,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rotary Connection,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Simply Red,
ABBA,
Harmonia,
Black Sheep,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rekid,
Barrington Levy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Warren Ellis,
The Durutti Column,
The Litter,
Joensuu 1685,
The United States of America,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Trojans,
Pole,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joe Finger,
Connie Case,
The Gap Band,
The Red Krayola,
Smog,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiohead,
Sun Ra,
Surgeon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Moss Icon,
Adolescents,
D'Angelo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fela Kuti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boredoms,
Scratch Acid,
Letta Mbulu,
Isaac Hayes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chrome,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joe Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
Amon Düül,
Aloha Tigers,
This Heat,
The Angels of Light,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Victims,
Gong,
Johnny Clarke,
Gichy Dan,
Stiv Bators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.