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 Lithuania and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 John Holt to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Suburban Knight,
Groovy Waters,
Patti Smith,
Moebius,
Sound Behaviour,
Don Cherry,
Rakim,
Television,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ituana,
Motorama,
Siglo XX,
Arthur Verocai,
The Offenders,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sonics,
World's Most,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warsaw,
Janne Schatter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roger Hodgson,
H. Thieme,
The Fire Engines,
Godley & Creme,
Alton Ellis,
Inner City,
Au Pairs,
Colin Newman,
Supertramp,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Lydon,
Soft Machine,
Liliput,
Basic Channel,
Gastr Del Sol,
David Axelrod,
One Last Wish,
The Raincoats,
Sällskapet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vainqueur,
the Human League,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rotary Connection,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Skatalites,
Harmonia,
Peter and Kerry,
T. Rex,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barrington Levy,
China Crisis,
Mission of Burma,
Davy DMX,
Jeff Mills,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.