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 Qatar and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 MDC to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Agitation Free,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Gap Band,
Monks,
Glenn Branca,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amazonics,
Sällskapet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Fear,
Desert Stars,
Roy Ayers,
Shoche,
Cluster,
The Golliwogs,
Accadde A,
LL Cool J,
Dawn Penn,
The Cure,
Dual Sessions,
The Happenings,
Masters at Work,
Maleditus Sound,
Cybotron,
Black Sheep,
Juan Atkins,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Vladislav Delay,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June Days,
R.M.O.,
Scrapy,
Guru Guru,
Dennis Brown,
Flipper,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
Eddi Front,
Colin Newman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erykah Badu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter and Kerry,
Cheater Slicks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rakim,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.