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 Kosovo and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
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 snare 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 Q65 to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Kerrie Biddell,
UT,
KRS-One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Youth Brigade,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sarah Menescal,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris & Cosey,
Tom Boy,
Bill Near,
China Crisis,
Godley & Creme,
Kas Product,
Matthew Bourne,
The Residents,
Sun City Girls,
R.M.O.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Vogues,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Brand Nubian,
the Association,
Trumans Water,
Livin' Joy,
Stereo Dub,
Porter Ricks,
Roxy Music,
Gong,
Deadbeat,
The Smoke,
Maleditus Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Halsall,
Sixth Finger,
Alison Limerick,
Crime,
Mars,
Jeff Lynne,
Kurtis Blow,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hashim,
Fatback Band,
Cluster,
The Monks,
Suburban Knight,
The Gladiators,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Moon,
The Count Five,
Fear,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.