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 Israel and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deadbeat to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Gang of Four,
Steve Hackett,
The Modern Lovers,
ABBA,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moss Icon,
Eddi Front,
Sugar Minott,
Infiniti,
Lalo Schifrin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vainqueur,
Cymande,
Can,
Matthew Halsall,
Hasil Adkins,
The Trojans,
The Smoke,
Junior Murvin,
Unwound,
The United States of America,
Godley & Creme,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kenny Larkin,
Country Teasers,
Aaron Thompson,
La Düsseldorf,
Pharoah Sanders,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Velvet Underground,
Section 25,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Pretty Things,
Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Masters at Work,
World's Most,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Bananas,
Rufus Thomas,
Scion,
Sam Rivers,
Maurizio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Dolphy,
The Five Americans,
Lower 48,
Pere Ubu,
Tears for Fears,
Roxy Music,
Alphaville,
Shuggie Otis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.