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 Monaco and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dark Day to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Tommy Roe,
Warren Ellis,
Lucky Dragons,
Parry Music,
The Misunderstood,
Pagans,
Funky Four + One,
Arthur Verocai,
Sarah Menescal,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cal Tjader,
Carl Craig,
The Young Rascals,
The Zeros,
Von Mondo,
Dennis Brown,
Malaria!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Susan Cadogan,
Davy DMX,
China Crisis,
48th St. Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
Los Fastidios,
Gichy Dan,
Blake Baxter,
The Gladiators,
Jacob Miller,
Al Stewart,
Crash Course in Science,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eddi Front,
Max Romeo,
Surgeon,
Amazonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Technova,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cure,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Derrick Morgan,
Tres Demented,
The Music Machine,
Underground Resistance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Ossler,
Slave,
8 Eyed Spy,
Leonard Cohen,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Livin' Joy,
Rakim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harmonia,
Soft Machine,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.