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 Ukraine and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Fall to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
DJ Sneak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Con Funk Shun,
H. Thieme,
Chris Corsano,
Chrome,
Blake Baxter,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ten City,
The Blackbyrds,
L. Decosne,
The Barracudas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Last Poets,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Hood,
Tres Demented,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Germs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Selecter,
Popol Vuh,
Marmalade,
Bang On A Can,
Saccharine Trust,
The Red Krayola,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sandy B,
Alton Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
The Blues Magoos,
Davy DMX,
DNA,
Rekid,
Minutemen,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tom Boy,
Bob Dylan,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Radiohead,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scratch Acid,
Franke,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Freddie Wadling,
the Bar-Kays,
JFA,
Aswad,
Fat Boys,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
X-102,
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.