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 Switzerland and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Derrick Morgan to the electroclash 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
The Residents,
China Crisis,
Al Stewart,
The Toasters,
The Angels of Light,
The New Christs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amazonics,
World's Most,
Camouflage,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Bananas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
cv313,
Bad Manners,
Sugar Minott,
John Foxx,
the Germs,
Main Source,
Terry Callier,
Harmonia,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Christie,
Jesper Dahlback,
Banda Bassotti,
Minutemen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fall,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Dirtbombs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dennis Brown,
Roxy Music,
The Trojans,
Arab on Radar,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Goldenarms,
Grauzone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Howard Jones,
Lightning Bolt,
The Skatalites,
Minny Pops,
Barrington Levy,
Blancmange,
Tears for Fears,
Crooked Eye,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sex Pistols,
John Lydon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
CMW,
Gong,
Nils Olav,
Aural Exciters,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.