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 Bolivia and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Bob Dylan to the disco 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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
The Offenders,
Joyce Sims,
Kas Product,
Rufus Thomas,
Surgeon,
Technova,
Charles Mingus,
Dawn Penn,
Deadbeat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tres Demented,
Smog,
Half Japanese,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slackers,
Barbara Tucker,
Zapp,
Graham Central Station,
Minny Pops,
Judy Mowatt,
Bronski Beat,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DJ Style,
Marc Almond,
Blossom Toes,
Blake Baxter,
Main Source,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Animal Collective,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Skatalites,
Porter Ricks,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiohead,
Kenny Larkin,
The Associates,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sonics,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Panda Bear,
Massinfluence,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tom Boy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Blues Magoos,
Suicide,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Malaria!,
Scrapy,
Hardrive,
Lalo Schifrin,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.