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 Maldives and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
FM Einheit,
R.M.O.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Newcleus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Neon Judgement,
Davy DMX,
Electric Prunes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
L. Decosne,
Scientists,
Leonard Cohen,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erasure,
Tom Boy,
Ohio Players,
Lungfish,
Heaven 17,
Jesper Dahlback,
Maurizio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tomorrow,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Popol Vuh,
The Vogues,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Smiths,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
Jacob Miller,
Magazine,
Easy Going,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Joe Smooth,
John Coltrane,
Yusef Lateef,
The Smoke,
Warsaw,
Donald Byrd,
Bad Manners,
Grey Daturas,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joey Negro,
Barry Ungar,
The Moleskins,
Stereo Dub,
The J.B.'s,
The Wake,
James White and The Blacks,
a-ha,
Toni Rubio,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
Symarip,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.