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 Monaco and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Danielle Patucci to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
The Move,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soul II Soul,
Girls At Our Best!,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Coltrane,
Lyres,
Zero Boys,
UT,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Sound,
This Heat,
The Techniques,
Sister Nancy,
Massinfluence,
The Durutti Column,
Laurel Aitken,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alton Ellis,
Dawn Penn,
ABC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gichy Dan,
Section 25,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling,
DJ Sneak,
Lower 48,
Mantronix,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
CMW,
Andrew Hill,
Fluxion,
Sällskapet,
Derrick Morgan,
Moss Icon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Frankie Knuckles,
AZ,
Morten Harket,
Todd Terry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DJ Style,
Tim Buckley,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Michelle Simonal,
Bronski Beat,
Urselle,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Last Poets,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultra Naté,
Spoonie Gee,
Thompson Twins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Rundgren,
New York Dolls,
Sam Rivers,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.