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 New Zealand and from Tokyo.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ 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 DJ Sneak to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Move,
The Knickerbockers,
Kayak,
Ice-T,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grauzone,
Isaac Hayes,
The American Breed,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Walker Brothers,
Nick Fraelich,
Roxette,
Gabor Szabo,
Depeche Mode,
The Velvet Underground,
Juan Atkins,
Intrusion,
The Seeds,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lindisfarne,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Red Krayola,
This Heat,
The Fuzztones,
Bluetip,
Nas,
48th St. Collective,
Angry Samoans,
X-101,
Fluxion,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sister Nancy,
The Real Kids,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Max Romeo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hardrive,
MC5,
The Misunderstood,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Reuben Wilson,
Hoover,
Black Moon,
The Gap Band,
Robert Hood,
Saccharine Trust,
The Evens,
Ronnie Foster,
Cameo,
Nils Olav,
Scratch Acid,
Anakelly,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.