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 Iran and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
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 Michael McDonald 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 Soulsonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Prince Buster,
John Coltrane,
Heaven 17,
The Fall,
Livin' Joy,
The Trojans,
Idris Muhammad,
The Red Krayola,
The Busters,
Johnny Clarke,
DJ Style,
Boredoms,
Aswad,
Colin Newman,
Moss Icon,
Cluster,
Archie Shepp,
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter and Kerry,
Chris Corsano,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stiv Bators,
Slave,
The Remains,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Flag,
Thompson Twins,
Iggy Pop,
Scientists,
The Beau Brummels,
Brand Nubian,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash,
Godley & Creme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Grey Daturas,
Tim Buckley,
One Last Wish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Q65,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Khruangbin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rapeman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Echospace,
Adolescents,
Man Parrish,
Japan,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.