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 Estonia and from Milan.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
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 harpsichord 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Connie Case,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
The Smiths,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delta 5,
Cluster,
Judy Mowatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Görl,
Tres Demented,
Nirvana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Country Teasers,
Bronski Beat,
The J.B.'s,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
a-ha,
Organ,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tom Boy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fela Kuti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Index,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Image Ltd.,
U.S. Maple,
Lower 48,
Kerri Chandler,
Isaac Hayes,
The Smoke,
Janne Schatter,
Henry Cow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dawn Penn,
Aloha Tigers,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Royal Trux,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed,
10cc,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sister Nancy,
EPMD,
The Motions,
OOIOO,
Glenn Branca,
Franke,
Cabaret Voltaire,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.