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 Armenia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Groovy Waters to the electroclash 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
The Divine Comedy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dawn Penn,
Wire,
Ultra Naté,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang of Four,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Human League,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Sonics,
Section 25,
Amon Düül II,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Organ,
New York Dolls,
Hasil Adkins,
Ponytail,
The Red Krayola,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mark Hollis,
Prince Buster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Michelle Simonal,
Vladislav Delay,
Joe Smooth,
Jeff Mills,
Dark Day,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bauhaus,
Jacques Brel,
Reagan Youth,
The Young Rascals,
The Motions,
Accadde A,
Oneida,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
The Raincoats,
FM Einheit,
Robert Görl,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jawbox,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
Eve St. Jones,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DNA,
Von Mondo,
Quantec,
Con Funk Shun,
Ice-T,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sister Nancy,
ABBA,
Bob Dylan,
The Moody Blues,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.