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 Grenada and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Mars to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Walker Brothers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Livin' Joy,
Cameo,
Aloha Tigers,
Ludus,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Slits,
Patti Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Severed Heads,
The Fortunes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Isaac Hayes,
Warren Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric B and Rakim,
Roger Hodgson,
Suicide,
Wire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brick,
Yaz,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
FM Einheit,
Sun City Girls,
The Young Rascals,
48th St. Collective,
Camberwell Now,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The American Breed,
Gil Scott Heron,
Anthony Braxton,
Television,
Monolake,
Ronnie Foster,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young,
John Foxx,
Robert Hood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Loose Ends,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rotary Connection,
New Age Steppers,
Ice-T,
The Doors,
Kaleidoscope,
Marcia Griffiths,
Country Teasers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.