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 Israel and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator 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 The Searchers to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alison Limerick,
Nico,
Jandek,
Deadbeat,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bill Near,
The Happenings,
Ossler,
Black Sheep,
Slick Rick,
John Lydon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Vogues,
Sällskapet,
Rufus Thomas,
Liliput,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rosa Yemen,
Reuben Wilson,
Kas Product,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Shuggie Otis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Circle Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Joy Division,
the Normal,
Banda Bassotti,
Model 500,
The Selecter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boz Scaggs,
The J.B.'s,
The Blackbyrds,
Nik Kershaw,
World's Most,
the Association,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Severed Heads,
Deakin,
Bad Manners,
kango's stein massive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pere Ubu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pulsallama,
Ronnie Foster,
Brick,
Tubeway Army,
The Blues Magoos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jerry's Kids,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eden Ahbez,
Connie Case,
Althea and Donna,
Derrick Morgan,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.