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 Brazil and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mantronix to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Young Marble Giants,
Pantaleimon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Judy Mowatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Accadde A,
Mo-Dettes,
Fluxion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eden Ahbez,
Negative Approach,
Josef K,
Television Personalities,
Erykah Badu,
Tres Demented,
Average White Band,
Magma,
The Motions,
Quando Quango,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott Heron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
China Crisis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joy Division,
The American Breed,
The Searchers,
Robert Hood,
Organ,
Shoche,
Duran Duran,
Ronan,
Funky Four + One,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cure,
Tears for Fears,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scott Walker,
The Saints,
The Blues Magoos,
Theoretical Girls,
Nico,
Bill Wells,
Wire,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New Order,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ohio Players,
Jacob Miller,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
John Cale,
Radio Birdman,
Q and Not U,
The Mojo Men,
Barry Ungar,
Hashim,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Arcadia,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.