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 Korea South and from New York.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Knickerbockers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Section 25,
Franke,
DJ Style,
Mr. Review,
Sandy B,
Marmalade,
Model 500,
Basic Channel,
Robert Wyatt,
Idris Muhammad,
In Retrospect,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camberwell Now,
Crash Course in Science,
R.M.O.,
Jacob Miller,
Harmonia,
Babytalk,
Nas,
Malaria!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dirtbombs,
Roy Ayers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Davy DMX,
Nils Olav,
Freddie Wadling,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Sneak,
Barrington Levy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New York Dolls,
Youth Brigade,
Khruangbin,
The Vogues,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
Kas Product,
Archie Shepp,
Kerri Chandler,
Accadde A,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
The Standells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Livin' Joy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fall,
JFA,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.