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 Ghana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 Jimmy McGriff to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Eurythmics,
Shoche,
Model 500,
The Neon Judgement,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Make Up,
The Gap Band,
The Martian,
Sun Ra,
X-101,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amazonics,
ABC,
JFA,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vainqueur,
The Skatalites,
Black Pus,
Talk Talk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Suicide,
Supertramp,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Wyatt,
The Techniques,
Rakim,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aural Exciters,
LL Cool J,
The Durutti Column,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Frankie Knuckles,
K-Klass,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Wake,
The Last Poets,
The Offenders,
Kevin Saunderson,
Franke,
June of 44,
Audionom,
Interpol,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scion,
These Immortal Souls,
Rotary Connection,
Radiohead,
The Raincoats,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.