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 Belgium and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Moebius to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Cybotron,
Juan Atkins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
La Düsseldorf,
Susan Cadogan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eli Mardock,
Magazine,
The Real Kids,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rufus Thomas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Sound,
The Mojo Men,
The Red Krayola,
Pantytec,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs,
Accadde A,
Dorothy Ashby,
Amazonics,
Barry Ungar,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Sheep,
Altered Images,
Desert Stars,
Fluxion,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brand Nubian,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
The Neon Judgement,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bad Manners,
H. Thieme,
John Coltrane,
Little Man,
Niagra,
Quadrant,
The Angels of Light,
Derrick May,
Television,
Stetsasonic,
the Bar-Kays,
Sister Nancy,
Johnny Osbourne,
David McCallum,
The Divine Comedy,
The Cowsills,
The Tremeloes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Todd Rundgren,
Deepchord,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.