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 the UAE and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin 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 CMW to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tom Boy,
Wire,
Motorama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
FM Einheit,
Pagans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nick Fraelich,
JFA,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Matthew Halsall,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joyce Sims,
Freddie Wadling,
Au Pairs,
Unwound,
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlback,
Brass Construction,
Rakim,
ABC,
Dawn Penn,
Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Pretty Things,
Panda Bear,
Anakelly,
The Monochrome Set,
Lyres,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
a-ha,
Surgeon,
The Evens,
The Saints,
Kenny Larkin,
Nik Kershaw,
Pharoah Sanders,
Animal Collective,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Smoke,
Albert Ayler,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Görl,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Morten Harket,
Vainqueur,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
Johnny Clarke,
Sparks,
The Doors,
The Golliwogs,
Ronnie Foster,
Rosa Yemen,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Flag,
Moss Icon,
The Associates,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.