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 Greece and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne 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 a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sam Rivers,
The Moleskins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Marmalade,
Nick Fraelich,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scan 7,
Royal Trux,
Shuggie Otis,
Pulsallama,
Mission of Burma,
Grey Daturas,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Sherman,
David McCallum,
Bob Dylan,
Charles Mingus,
U.S. Maple,
The Vogues,
Boz Scaggs,
Television Personalities,
Skaos,
Graham Central Station,
The Blues Magoos,
Symarip,
Johnny Clarke,
Hardrive,
Nas,
Model 500,
Crime,
Cecil Taylor,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fuzztones,
Glenn Branca,
Colin Newman,
Dark Day,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Quantec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Deadbeat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Monks,
KRS-One,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Grass Roots,
Anthony Braxton,
Delta 5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.