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 Japan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
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 arpeggiator 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Marmalade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Names,
Charles Mingus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Henry Cow,
The Busters,
The Motions,
Mark Hollis,
Nirvana,
Juan Atkins,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Lakeside,
Ronan,
The Litter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Raincoats,
Fugazi,
MC5,
Hot Snakes,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
The Index,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Blackbyrds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Circle Jerks,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Average White Band,
Deakin,
Desert Stars,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DJ Sneak,
PIL,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Newcleus,
Theoretical Girls,
Cameo,
Cal Tjader,
Slick Rick,
These Immortal Souls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terry Callier,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Christie,
Fad Gadget,
Hoover,
Junior Murvin,
The Black Dice,
Patti Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Banda Bassotti,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.