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 Turkey and from Sao Paulo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
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 oboe 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 Arcadia to the crunk 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Lynne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Faraquet,
Unrelated Segments,
Q65,
Rakim,
The Sonics,
Bauhaus,
Heaven 17,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
The Gap Band,
Sugar Minott,
The Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jawbox,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Victims,
Qualms,
Wings,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ituana,
Bad Manners,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mark Hollis,
Laurel Aitken,
Pierre Henry,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aaron Thompson,
Surgeon,
The Smiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pere Ubu,
K-Klass,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cameo,
ABBA,
Roxy Music,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
Rites of Spring,
Prince Buster,
R.M.O.,
Black Sheep,
the Association,
Tom Boy,
Organ,
Leonard Cohen,
Lucky Dragons,
Cheater Slicks,
D'Angelo,
Pole,
Donny Hathaway,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.