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 Greece and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Colin Newman to the jazz 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
kango's stein massive,
Matthew Halsall,
Avey Tare,
The Dirtbombs,
Mad Mike,
Colin Newman,
Groovy Waters,
Moss Icon,
Tubeway Army,
Anthony Braxton,
Iggy Pop,
Donald Byrd,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Litter,
Kerri Chandler,
Suicide,
James White and The Blacks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott Heron,
Franke,
Drexciya,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dawn Penn,
Angry Samoans,
Fluxion,
AZ,
Pagans,
Pulsallama,
Ten City,
Sun Ra,
La Düsseldorf,
The Move,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
A Certain Ratio,
Blancmange,
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
Schoolly D,
Cybotron,
Black Sheep,
Oneida,
Patti Smith,
Radiohead,
New York Dolls,
Barbara Tucker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Five Americans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultimate Spinach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Simply Red,
The Motions,
The Searchers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radio Birdman,
Mars,
These Immortal Souls,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.