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 Zambia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 Michelle Simonal to the grime 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Basic Channel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The United States of America,
T. Rex,
The Saints,
Aaron Thompson,
Blossom Toes,
The Kinks,
Derrick Morgan,
Unwound,
Index,
L. Decosne,
Crime,
Grey Daturas,
The Evens,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hoover,
New Order,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Warren Ellis,
Outsiders,
A Certain Ratio,
Sugar Minott,
One Last Wish,
Lungfish,
Khruangbin,
Funkadelic,
Mad Mike,
ABBA,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Görl,
Roxette,
Danielle Patucci,
The Monks,
Jeff Mills,
Sound Behaviour,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Janne Schatter,
Chris & Cosey,
Theoretical Girls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Womack,
Neu!,
EPMD,
Wire,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Prince Buster,
The Buckinghams,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
New Age Steppers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ten City,
Alton Ellis,
Ultravox,
Groovy Waters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Iggy Pop,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.