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 Taiwan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 808 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 EPMD to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare 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 marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Quadrant,
Nik Kershaw,
Flash Fearless,
The Sonics,
June of 44,
Monolake,
Ultra Naté,
Infiniti,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Junior Murvin,
Motorama,
The Angels of Light,
The Kinks,
Hasil Adkins,
Ten City,
The Electric Prunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aloha Tigers,
Cluster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Neu!,
Brass Construction,
Blossom Toes,
Vladislav Delay,
AZ,
La Düsseldorf,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Rites of Spring,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Model 500,
Schoolly D,
The Pop Group,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hardrive,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Subhumans,
Magma,
Sugar Minott,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
The Red Krayola,
Stereo Dub,
Donald Byrd,
Mandrill,
Reagan Youth,
Half Japanese,
The Last Poets,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Lou Christie,
Jeff Lynne,
Kurtis Blow,
Niagra,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.