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 Palau and from Toronto.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Man Parrish to the jazz 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Nirvana,
Kaleidoscope,
Sandy B,
Absolute Body Control,
Boredoms,
Niagra,
Slave,
Robert Görl,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Doors,
Negative Approach,
Schoolly D,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skriet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Aloha Tigers,
Ronnie Foster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Faraquet,
Warren Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joy Division,
Audionom,
Loose Ends,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yaz,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Zapp,
Susan Cadogan,
Oneida,
Gastr Del Sol,
Television Personalities,
The Fire Engines,
Vainqueur,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Japan,
K-Klass,
Khruangbin,
Amon Düül,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Al Stewart,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Red Krayola,
Das Ding,
The Fuzztones,
The Searchers,
Pulsallama,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Inner City,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang Starr,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.