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 Togo and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 ABC to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Martian. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Buzzcocks,
Moss Icon,
Barbara Tucker,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ossler,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thee Headcoats,
Bluetip,
Desert Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Leonard Cohen,
Patti Smith,
Maurizio,
The Names,
The Dirtbombs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minutemen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pantytec,
Deadbeat,
Scan 7,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swell Maps,
Excepter,
The Walker Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smiths,
Joy Division,
The Happenings,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stetsasonic,
L. Decosne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Das Ding,
Brothers Johnson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camberwell Now,
Darondo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Motorama,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
F. McDonald,
Mo-Dettes,
The Buckinghams,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quantec,
Ronnie Foster,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry's Kids,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smoke,
The Mummies,
Ten City,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.