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 United Kingdom and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Clear Light to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Marshall Jefferson,
Radio Birdman,
Minutemen,
Brothers Johnson,
Scientists,
Flash Fearless,
Gong,
The Buckinghams,
Pole,
Black Flag,
Mission of Burma,
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
Minor Threat,
Infiniti,
The Slits,
The Electric Prunes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Vainqueur,
MDC,
Los Fastidios,
The Neon Judgement,
DJ Style,
Quadrant,
Rotary Connection,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
Harry Pussy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
These Immortal Souls,
Lindisfarne,
Tropical Tobacco,
Clear Light,
Au Pairs,
The Busters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ituana,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cal Tjader,
Pere Ubu,
The Leaves,
Cheater Slicks,
Fugazi,
LL Cool J,
Simply Red,
48th St. Collective,
Motorama,
Mantronix,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Warsaw,
Niagra,
D'Angelo,
The Count Five,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.