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 Bolivia and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dave Clark Five to the techno 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cybotron,
Model 500,
Moss Icon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arab on Radar,
The Beau Brummels,
Little Man,
Tomorrow,
Sound Behaviour,
Can,
Eric B and Rakim,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Motorama,
Marine Girls,
Supertramp,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Sneak,
Niagra,
Blake Baxter,
Jerry's Kids,
Godley & Creme,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
L. Decosne,
Pierre Henry,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
Lakeside,
La Düsseldorf,
Animal Collective,
MC5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eddi Front,
The Gap Band,
Derrick May,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
U.S. Maple,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Outsiders,
The Walker Brothers,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Josef K,
the Association,
Nico,
Inner City,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Clear Light,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Christie,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Surgeon,
Sight & Sound,
Man Parrish,
Qualms,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.