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 Estonia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the snare 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 Sugar Minott to the funk 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Zero Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Franke,
Idris Muhammad,
Pulsallama,
Inner City,
Kerri Chandler,
Faraquet,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roxy Music,
Goldenarms,
PIL,
Trumans Water,
Vainqueur,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Chris Corsano,
Harpers Bizarre,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Boredoms,
Brand Nubian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agent Orange,
Nik Kershaw,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Detroit Cobras,
Japan,
Funkadelic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Johnny Clarke,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Saints,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Pierre Henry,
Kurtis Blow,
Pantaleimon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Don Cherry,
Colin Newman,
Porter Ricks,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
Brass Construction,
The Kinks,
The Move,
Deepchord,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camberwell Now,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lakeside,
Jeff Mills,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neu!,
Scan 7,
The Music Machine,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.