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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The J.B.'s to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Frankie Knuckles,
Brick,
The Motions,
Gang Starr,
Camberwell Now,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reagan Youth,
Mr. Review,
a-ha,
Marine Girls,
Sex Pistols,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
U.S. Maple,
Eric Dolphy,
Siglo XX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joe Finger,
Black Sheep,
Little Man,
Mission of Burma,
Rosa Yemen,
Barbara Tucker,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Womack,
Parry Music,
Gong,
The New Christs,
The United States of America,
Panda Bear,
Glenn Branca,
Television,
Lalann,
Dennis Brown,
Derrick Morgan,
the Association,
Wings,
Fela Kuti,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kaleidoscope,
Sällskapet,
Negative Approach,
Technova,
Pere Ubu,
June Days,
Nas,
Gang of Four,
The Doors,
Letta Mbulu,
China Crisis,
Kas Product,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Quantec,
Scan 7,
The Index,
June of 44,
James White and The Blacks,
Desert Stars,
F. McDonald,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.