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 the UAE and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Eric Dolphy to the electroclash 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lakeside,
T.S.O.L.,
The Monochrome Set,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Buckinghams,
Stereo Dub,
Maurizio,
Khruangbin,
Pylon,
the Swans,
CMW,
The Skatalites,
Hasil Adkins,
Radiohead,
Junior Murvin,
Grauzone,
Sandy B,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Avey Tare,
Donny Hathaway,
the Slits,
Michelle Simonal,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Last Poets,
LL Cool J,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Cecil Taylor,
The Black Dice,
Altered Images,
Sparks,
K-Klass,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
Letta Mbulu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soft Cell,
Tres Demented,
Soulsonic Force,
The Angels of Light,
Alton Ellis,
Ralphi Rosario,
Terry Callier,
Circle Jerks,
D'Angelo,
Dead Boys,
The Count Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock 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.