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 the UAE and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sun Ra to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
The Grass Roots,
Flash Fearless,
Wire,
Brand Nubian,
The Toasters,
Average White Band,
The Zeros,
K-Klass,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Human League,
Skriet,
Half Japanese,
Stockholm Monsters,
Zapp,
Marvin Gaye,
Scientists,
Marshall Jefferson,
Parry Music,
Minor Threat,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun Ra,
Brick,
Slave,
The Fugs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
ABBA,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Raincoats,
Todd Terry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Names,
June Days,
Skaos,
MDC,
The Divine Comedy,
James White and The Blacks,
Second Layer,
Ronnie Foster,
JFA,
Erasure,
Don Cherry,
Nik Kershaw,
Jeff Mills,
Eric Copeland,
Trumans Water,
Minnie Riperton,
Roxy Music,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Offenders,
Hot Snakes,
The Buckinghams,
Bang On A Can,
Nico,
Newcleus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.