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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
The Invisible,
Sarah Menescal,
The Buckinghams,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
MC5,
Nik Kershaw,
Newcleus,
Darondo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sound,
Neil Young,
The Names,
Quando Quango,
The Litter,
The Fuzztones,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
AZ,
Gastr Del Sol,
Andrew Hill,
Warren Ellis,
Bang On A Can,
Judy Mowatt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sällskapet,
Smog,
Rosa Yemen,
Make Up,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Christie,
The Sonics,
Scrapy,
Bronski Beat,
The Young Rascals,
Black Moon,
Brick,
The Selecter,
Rod Modell,
LL Cool J,
The Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mission of Burma,
Tropical Tobacco,
Trumans Water,
Moebius,
The Cramps,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
cv313,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Silicon Teens,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Busters,
Hot Snakes,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.