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 Spain and from New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fela Kuti to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Morten Harket,
Connie Case,
Mission of Burma,
Organ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Victims,
The Misunderstood,
Alton Ellis,
KRS-One,
In Retrospect,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Symarip,
The Neon Judgement,
Scientists,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
John Holt,
The Busters,
Radio Birdman,
Monolake,
cv313,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joe Smooth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Amazonics,
Animal Collective,
Technova,
Ultra Naté,
Supertramp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visage,
Traffic Nightmare,
Maleditus Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flipper,
James White and The Blacks,
Ohio Players,
Clear Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Names,
Yaz,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Neil Young,
Ossler,
Jerry's Kids,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Young Marble Giants,
Al Stewart,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Green,
Con Funk Shun,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pet Shop Boys,
Main Source,
Funky Four + One,
Funkadelic,
Brick,
Duran Duran,
Hashim,
Graham Central Station,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.