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 Guyana and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Monks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crooked Eye,
Arthur Verocai,
Franke,
Public Enemy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed,
The Fugs,
Au Pairs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Warren Ellis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angry Samoans,
The Grass Roots,
Radiohead,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eve St. Jones,
Boredoms,
Altered Images,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Evens,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Bob Dylan,
Organ,
Alphaville,
This Heat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Davy DMX,
E-Dancer,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
New York Dolls,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Kas Product,
Scratch Acid,
Radio Birdman,
Vainqueur,
Delta 5,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lucky Dragons,
Bush Tetras,
The Blues Magoos,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fuzztones,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Zeros,
L. Decosne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Metal Thangz,
Yellowson,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
Monolake,
David Bowie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.