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 Panama and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pole to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sam Rivers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Japan,
Black Pus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sugar Minott,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Marmalade,
Clear Light,
Scan 7,
Lalo Schifrin,
Essential Logic,
Buzzcocks,
Q and Not U,
Lakeside,
Echospace,
Carl Craig,
Arab on Radar,
Susan Cadogan,
The Skatalites,
Swans,
Ossler,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Saccharine Trust,
Frankie Knuckles,
Public Enemy,
Banda Bassotti,
Scientists,
Maleditus Sound,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Buckinghams,
Main Source,
Warren Ellis,
The Invisible,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ituana,
Thompson Twins,
Liliput,
The Kinks,
DNA,
The Human League,
The American Breed,
Eden Ahbez,
Dennis Brown,
The Seeds,
ABBA,
Pierre Henry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
The Shadows of Knight,
Connie Case,
June of 44,
China Crisis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.