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 St Lucia and from Paris.
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 New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 cv313 to the funk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
The Pop Group,
The Five Americans,
La Düsseldorf,
Bob Dylan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Judy Mowatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tommy Roe,
Swell Maps,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yusef Lateef,
Gabor Szabo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joey Negro,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Boredoms,
Jeru the Damaja,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Masters at Work,
Goldenarms,
In Retrospect,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Section 25,
Vainqueur,
Rakim,
Bobby Sherman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
Ornette Coleman,
The Leaves,
Ice-T,
The Smiths,
Mission of Burma,
Los Fastidios,
Barrington Levy,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
Mantronix,
The Sonics,
Subhumans,
Anakelly,
Quadrant,
Desert Stars,
Chrome,
Wings,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
The Trojans,
Ponytail,
the Slits,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nas,
Neu!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Offenders,
Organ,
The Names,
Dual Sessions,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.