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 South Africa 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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron 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 cv313 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Wally Richardson,
Alton Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Agitation Free,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Martian,
The Pretty Things,
Godley & Creme,
Dave Gahan,
The Electric Prunes,
Motorama,
Joey Negro,
New Order,
Technova,
X-102,
Deadbeat,
Gabor Szabo,
Nils Olav,
Terry Callier,
Kaleidoscope,
Pierre Henry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Harmonia,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gladiators,
Section 25,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Busters,
Harry Pussy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
A Flock of Seagulls,
T. Rex,
Lyres,
Nico,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Television,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Lydon,
Vainqueur,
The Smiths,
Tim Buckley,
The Selecter,
Minnie Riperton,
Public Enemy,
Michelle Simonal,
Amon Düül II,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wasted Youth,
Cecil Taylor,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Five Americans,
The Walker Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
Second Layer,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.