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 Guinea and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Modern Lovers,
Outsiders,
Stetsasonic,
The Motions,
Bootsy Collins,
Arcadia,
Swans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
Theoretical Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Deepchord,
The Victims,
kango's stein massive,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aural Exciters,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fall,
Vladislav Delay,
The Walker Brothers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Monochrome Set,
Joyce Sims,
Average White Band,
Derrick Morgan,
the Normal,
Roxy Music,
Deakin,
Trumans Water,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dennis Brown,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Stiv Bators,
Yazoo,
Negative Approach,
Morten Harket,
Absolute Body Control,
Ken Boothe,
Faraquet,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sparks,
Au Pairs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Visage,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Underground Resistance,
The Fortunes,
Davy DMX,
Eric Dolphy,
The Smiths,
Spoonie Gee,
Liliput,
Siglo XX,
Niagra,
Cymande,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.