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 Australia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Pet Shop Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Zeros,
Andrew Hill,
Basic Channel,
FM Einheit,
The Fire Engines,
Zapp,
The Detroit Cobras,
OOIOO,
The Cowsills,
The Durutti Column,
Mo-Dettes,
Fatback Band,
Surgeon,
Ronnie Foster,
Nik Kershaw,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Clear Light,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Fraelich,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Japan,
Camouflage,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
These Immortal Souls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Slits,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vainqueur,
Cal Tjader,
Funky Four + One,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Piero Umiliani,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aswad,
The Vogues,
The Gun Club,
The Skatalites,
Black Bananas,
Leonard Cohen,
Shoche,
Depeche Mode,
Au Pairs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Isaac Hayes,
Vladislav Delay,
The Offenders,
Scan 7,
Mark Hollis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Simply Red,
Archie Shepp,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.