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 Israel and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Newcleus to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
New York Dolls,
The Kinks,
The Electric Prunes,
Brand Nubian,
FM Einheit,
Carl Craig,
Crime,
The Young Rascals,
The Remains,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amon Düül II,
Jimmy McGriff,
K-Klass,
Dave Gahan,
Make Up,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New Age Steppers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Victims,
Nas,
Dennis Brown,
The Offenders,
Slave,
Ossler,
Tubeway Army,
Maleditus Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Simply Red,
Technova,
Scrapy,
Peter and Kerry,
Aloha Tigers,
The Index,
David Axelrod,
Boz Scaggs,
The Last Poets,
Laurel Aitken,
Ituana,
Scott Walker,
Unrelated Segments,
This Heat,
Das Ding,
Black Bananas,
Tres Demented,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
Roxy Music,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Amon Düül,
Lakeside,
Albert Ayler,
The Happenings,
Yaz,
Stiv Bators,
Groovy Waters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Starr,
Von Mondo,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.