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 Nicaragua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Halifax.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the funk 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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
Mr. Review,
Mo-Dettes,
Hasil Adkins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bill Wells,
Terrestrial Tones,
This Heat,
Black Bananas,
Arthur Verocai,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Outsiders,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun City Girls,
Pantytec,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Moebius,
Chris Corsano,
Jacob Miller,
The Buckinghams,
The Golliwogs,
Angry Samoans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Carl Craig,
Steve Hackett,
Kurtis Blow,
David Bowie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bad Manners,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pylon,
Neil Young,
The Tremeloes,
LL Cool J,
The Black Dice,
Rotary Connection,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Simply Red,
Oneida,
Morten Harket,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Heaven 17,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mars,
Rapeman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Blake Baxter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Letta Mbulu,
MDC,
The Associates,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.