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 Honduras and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Warren Ellis to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints 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 '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 Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Bluetip,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
CMW,
Moby Grape,
Echospace,
Masters at Work,
Deepchord,
The Dirtbombs,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Gang Dance,
Blossom Toes,
Circle Jerks,
Nils Olav,
Slave,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warsaw,
ABBA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Icehouse,
Barry Ungar,
Royal Trux,
Mary Jane Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
The Pretty Things,
the Normal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Wake,
The Stooges,
D'Angelo,
Lightning Bolt,
The Five Americans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
A Certain Ratio,
Model 500,
X-102,
Stetsasonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Moss Icon,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
Metal Thangz,
The American Breed,
Underground Resistance,
Roy Ayers,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Von Mondo,
Crash Course in Science,
Arcadia,
Yaz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Goldenarms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Audionom,
Stereo Dub,
Thompson Twins,
Jeff Lynne,
The J.B.'s,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.