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 Haiti and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Joe Finger,
Radio Birdman,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Black Dice,
Judy Mowatt,
Saccharine Trust,
The Detroit Cobras,
Harmonia,
Make Up,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Magma,
Jimmy McGriff,
Byron Stingily,
B.T. Express,
X-Ray Spex,
Sun Ra,
Gong,
David Axelrod,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Y Pants,
The Star Department,
Black Sheep,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
This Heat,
Eve St. Jones,
Ohio Players,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Babytalk,
Rod Modell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Urselle,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Subhumans,
The Modern Lovers,
Pussy Galore,
Vladislav Delay,
Massinfluence,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Red Krayola,
Bauhaus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Intrusion,
The Standells,
Scion,
Pantytec,
Tom Boy,
Qualms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brand Nubian,
Althea and Donna,
The Cowsills,
Mr. Review,
Sällskapet,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.