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 Vanuatu and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Buckinghams to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Albert Ayler,
Fear,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fuzztones,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eddi Front,
Aaron Thompson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
A Certain Ratio,
The Barracudas,
Mandrill,
Eli Mardock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Average White Band,
World's Most,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun City Girls,
Thompson Twins,
The Red Krayola,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Newcleus,
Livin' Joy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shuggie Otis,
Spandau Ballet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Boredoms,
The Grass Roots,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Inner City,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
Index,
Joy Division,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobby Womack,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cymande,
June Days,
The Five Americans,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Christie,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dual Sessions,
the Normal,
Deadbeat,
Ice-T,
Grey Daturas,
Cal Tjader,
The Pretty Things,
Crime,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.