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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delta 5 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Wyatt,
Pussy Galore,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Niagra,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
EPMD,
Boogie Down Productions,
Half Japanese,
Pantaleimon,
Henry Cow,
Blossom Toes,
The Index,
Suicide,
Barry Ungar,
Jeff Mills,
Lindisfarne,
The Barracudas,
Ten City,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deepchord,
Nas,
Fear,
Deakin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mantronix,
Kool Moe Dee,
Subhumans,
Nirvana,
Eric Dolphy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oblivians,
Neu!,
The Kinks,
Fugazi,
The Gap Band,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harmonia,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scott Walker,
Black Flag,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roger Hodgson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Porter Ricks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Mummies,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blackbyrds,
La Düsseldorf,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.