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 Mali and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Technova,
Los Fastidios,
The Mummies,
The Raincoats,
Eve St. Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Eurythmics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pantaleimon,
Drexciya,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zero Boys,
Connie Case,
Gastr Del Sol,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eden Ahbez,
Don Cherry,
Tears for Fears,
Scratch Acid,
Kerri Chandler,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tres Demented,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brand Nubian,
Lakeside,
Glambeats Corp.,
Charles Mingus,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
DNA,
Ituana,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cluster,
Black Bananas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Traffic Nightmare,
LL Cool J,
Lungfish,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
June Days,
The Flesh Eaters,
Simply Red,
the Swans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moleskins,
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.