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 Serbia and from Madrid.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Shuggie Otis 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Ponytail,
Smog,
Jeff Mills,
Pole,
Graham Central Station,
Sonic Youth,
Blossom Toes,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacob Miller,
The Tremeloes,
A Certain Ratio,
John Foxx,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
The Monochrome Set,
Technova,
Ludus,
Deepchord,
Kas Product,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mr. Review,
Grandmaster Flash,
Model 500,
Quando Quango,
LL Cool J,
The Smoke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dead Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Godley & Creme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grauzone,
Sister Nancy,
Avey Tare,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bush Tetras,
Lucky Dragons,
Prince Buster,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
The Count Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Yellowson,
Robert Hood,
The Fall,
The Vogues,
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
AZ,
The Moody Blues,
Stereo Dub,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Toasters,
The Victims,
Banda Bassotti,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.