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 Latvia and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 The Pop Group to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neu!,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Christie,
Joe Finger,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Youth Brigade,
Stetsasonic,
The American Breed,
Boz Scaggs,
Roxy Music,
Al Stewart,
Sex Pistols,
Dave Gahan,
These Immortal Souls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Technova,
Brass Construction,
Excepter,
Sam Rivers,
the Bar-Kays,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Country Teasers,
Drexciya,
The Doors,
Public Enemy,
The Monks,
Interpol,
The Techniques,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Leaves,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
Bang On A Can,
K-Klass,
Johnny Clarke,
The Birthday Party,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers,
Peter and Kerry,
Jandek,
Nirvana,
Beasts of Bourbon,
T.S.O.L.,
New Age Steppers,
Grey Daturas,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
Sarah Menescal,
The Happenings,
Section 25,
Oneida,
Radio Birdman,
Electric Prunes,
Brick,
Icehouse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.