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 Iran and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Cameo to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Lungfish,
48th St. Collective,
David Axelrod,
Television,
The Gap Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flash Fearless,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul II Soul,
David Bowie,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
kango's stein massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tim Buckley,
Soul Sonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Bronski Beat,
Howard Jones,
Absolute Body Control,
Moss Icon,
Adolescents,
Joensuu 1685,
DNA,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Cale,
Moebius,
Fad Gadget,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
The Vogues,
the Fania All-Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang of Four,
Boredoms,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
K-Klass,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Slave,
Idris Muhammad,
Nas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slits,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
Barrington Levy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chris & Cosey,
Schoolly D,
Lyres,
Yaz,
Rakim,
Thee Headcoats,
Severed Heads,
Ten City,
The Five Americans,
The Pretty Things,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.