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 Brunei and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Barrington Levy to the rock 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dirtbombs,
Accadde A,
Dark Day,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tommy Roe,
Siglo XX,
Wire,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Terry,
Robert Görl,
The Mojo Men,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marvin Gaye,
Camouflage,
Massinfluence,
Stereo Dub,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agent Orange,
Blancmange,
Pole,
Neil Young,
Traffic Nightmare,
Procol Harum,
Joyce Sims,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camberwell Now,
Smog,
Electric Prunes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ossler,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ohio Players,
The Skatalites,
Nirvana,
China Crisis,
The Barracudas,
Maurizio,
The Golliwogs,
PIL,
Sun City Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Inner City,
Crash Course in Science,
The Blackbyrds,
New Order,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Association,
Cameo,
the Slits,
Albert Ayler,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Radiohead,
Yusef Lateef,
Sexual Harrassment,
La Düsseldorf,
Con Funk Shun,
Minnie Riperton,
Dave Gahan,
The Zeros,
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.