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 Burundi and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Index to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Don Cherry,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Silicon Teens,
Marmalade,
Alton Ellis,
Pussy Galore,
Sandy B,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gun Club,
Accadde A,
E-Dancer,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gabor Szabo,
Lower 48,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Martian,
Aswad,
OOIOO,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantytec,
Minny Pops,
Angry Samoans,
cv313,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Near,
Jacob Miller,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry's Kids,
Altered Images,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Andrew Hill,
Guru Guru,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Sherman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fire Engines,
Adolescents,
Brick,
Cluster,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Cale,
The Vogues,
Arab on Radar,
Chris Corsano,
Ornette Coleman,
Wally Richardson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.