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 Togo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Aural Exciters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Erykah Badu,
Tom Boy,
The Searchers,
Hasil Adkins,
The Offenders,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Flag,
F. McDonald,
Scratch Acid,
Hot Snakes,
Technova,
Sound Behaviour,
Alton Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Pulsallama,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Dave Gahan,
Babytalk,
Moss Icon,
James White and The Blacks,
Nas,
Scientists,
Rosa Yemen,
Q and Not U,
Roger Hodgson,
Danielle Patucci,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marvin Gaye,
New Order,
Qualms,
Scott Walker,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Man Parrish,
The Alarm Clocks,
Idris Muhammad,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
Sugar Minott,
Alphaville,
the Slits,
In Retrospect,
Marc Almond,
Mission of Burma,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Erasure,
Theoretical Girls,
Anakelly,
Rekid,
Surgeon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.