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 Greece and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Unrelated Segments to the techno 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Isaac Hayes,
Faraquet,
Tears for Fears,
Visage,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agent Orange,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rakim,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Popol Vuh,
Stereo Dub,
Motorama,
Glambeats Corp.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Mantronix,
Index,
Eve St. Jones,
Tropical Tobacco,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nik Kershaw,
Amon Düül II,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Sister Nancy,
The Sound,
Amazonics,
Panda Bear,
Lou Christie,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Soft Cell,
Blake Baxter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
CMW,
Black Pus,
Brass Construction,
Pulsallama,
Groovy Waters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eric B and Rakim,
Banda Bassotti,
Pagans,
La Düsseldorf,
Japan,
Janne Schatter,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
Jerry's Kids,
One Last Wish,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.