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 Japan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
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,
Crispian St. Peters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fuzztones,
Quadrant,
Danielle Patucci,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Cale,
Sparks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ice-T,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Electric Prunes,
MDC,
Sight & Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yusef Lateef,
Faraquet,
Barry Ungar,
Hasil Adkins,
Tropical Tobacco,
X-101,
Tim Buckley,
B.T. Express,
Eli Mardock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Dirtbombs,
Bluetip,
Underground Resistance,
Jeru the Damaja,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
Dennis Brown,
Pierre Henry,
the Sonics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Y Pants,
Crime,
La Düsseldorf,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Accadde A,
Bobby Womack,
Schoolly D,
The Human League,
The Associates,
The Selecter,
Average White Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thompson Twins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Iggy Pop,
The Toasters,
Sällskapet,
Negative Approach,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.