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 Latvia and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Jesper Dahlback to the funk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Ken Boothe,
Bush Tetras,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Circle Jerks,
Don Cherry,
Ultimate Spinach,
Malaria!,
Charles Mingus,
Black Flag,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Real Kids,
Deadbeat,
Franke,
Television,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tim Buckley,
The Divine Comedy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Theoretical Girls,
Angry Samoans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yellowson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bang On A Can,
In Retrospect,
KRS-One,
Ossler,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rotary Connection,
The Smoke,
Juan Atkins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
Janne Schatter,
Oblivians,
These Immortal Souls,
The Last Poets,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Moleskins,
Joe Smooth,
Ice-T,
Nils Olav,
Mission of Burma,
Sun City Girls,
Peter & Gordon,
MC5,
the Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camberwell Now,
JFA,
Tres Demented,
The Doors,
Pylon,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Star Department,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.