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 Bolivia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Cheater Slicks to the rap 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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Main Source,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Sparks,
the Soft Cell,
Organ,
Mars,
CMW,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ossler,
Rosa Yemen,
Danielle Patucci,
The Leaves,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nik Kershaw,
Reagan Youth,
K-Klass,
Shuggie Otis,
Marine Girls,
Symarip,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Second Layer,
The Buckinghams,
The United States of America,
Skriet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flamin' Groovies,
10cc,
Archie Shepp,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway,
Amon Düül,
Bill Wells,
Tommy Roe,
Ponytail,
Eric Dolphy,
Liliput,
Carl Craig,
Neil Young,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rotary Connection,
Joey Negro,
Gang Gang Dance,
Skaos,
Bobby Sherman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Outsiders,
Model 500,
F. McDonald,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pierre Henry,
Los Fastidios,
Stockholm Monsters,
Susan Cadogan,
Eden Ahbez,
This Heat,
T. Rex,
The Litter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
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.