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 Bangladesh and from Calgary.
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 Edmonton and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Mummies to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Gong,
Soul Sonic Force,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Excepter,
Connie Case,
Jeff Mills,
Sarah Menescal,
Harmonia,
Yaz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cameo,
Parry Music,
Little Man,
Barrington Levy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scientists,
Mars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nirvana,
Faraquet,
the Slits,
Subhumans,
Al Stewart,
Man Parrish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joyce Sims,
Avey Tare,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Radiohead,
Erykah Badu,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Byrd,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ossler,
Youth Brigade,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jandek,
The Monks,
New York Dolls,
Kerri Chandler,
Schoolly D,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Oneida,
DJ Sneak,
Yusef Lateef,
a-ha,
Panda Bear,
The Fortunes,
Alison Limerick,
Marshall Jefferson,
MDC,
Can,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
Neil Young,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.