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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anthony Braxton to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Radio Birdman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Gang Starr,
Erykah Badu,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
cv313,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aloha Tigers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slits,
The Electric Prunes,
the Normal,
Hot Snakes,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Robert Wyatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mars,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
Joyce Sims,
The Grass Roots,
The Misunderstood,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Newcleus,
Yusef Lateef,
Suicide,
Kaleidoscope,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chris Corsano,
David Axelrod,
Cecil Taylor,
David Bowie,
Boredoms,
Average White Band,
Blossom Toes,
the Bar-Kays,
The Dead C,
Al Stewart,
the Swans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flipper,
Lebanon Hanover,
Royal Trux,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Technova,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Mojo Men,
Camberwell Now,
John Lydon,
UT,
Kayak,
Arab on Radar,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.