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 Yemen and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Donald Fagen 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 Absolute Body Control 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gap Band,
Gichy Dan,
Deadbeat,
Chrome,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Junior Murvin,
Althea and Donna,
The Fall,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
Howard Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Schoolly D,
Ohio Players,
Crime,
Juan Atkins,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Malaria!,
Guru Guru,
Warren Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gladiators,
Das Ding,
Peter & Gordon,
The Neon Judgement,
EPMD,
Neu!,
Warsaw,
Bobby Byrd,
Tim Buckley,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Coltrane,
The American Breed,
Black Moon,
CMW,
Jandek,
R.M.O.,
The Cure,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Moody Blues,
10cc,
Max Romeo,
The Electric Prunes,
June of 44,
Soft Cell,
Gang Green,
The Sound,
Fatback Band,
Shoche,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
Dead Boys,
The Real Kids,
Flipper,
the Sonics,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.