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 Slovenia and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Fluxion to the electroclash 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
World's Most,
Essential Logic,
Vladislav Delay,
Fad Gadget,
The Five Americans,
Joe Smooth,
Faraquet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The J.B.'s,
Khruangbin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jacob Miller,
Steve Hackett,
Tom Boy,
Roxy Music,
Altered Images,
Terrestrial Tones,
Matthew Bourne,
Rotary Connection,
Jandek,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Blossom Toes,
Harry Pussy,
Kayak,
Kerrie Biddell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Grey Daturas,
June Days,
Los Fastidios,
Kaleidoscope,
X-Ray Spex,
The United States of America,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Doors,
Banda Bassotti,
the Sonics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Arab on Radar,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
Q and Not U,
Oblivians,
Bad Manners,
The Dirtbombs,
Bronski Beat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camberwell Now,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barrington Levy,
Massinfluence,
Faust,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hardrive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.