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 Slovakia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Black Moon,
Babytalk,
Wings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alton Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Foxx,
Tim Buckley,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Moss Icon,
June of 44,
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Monks,
Anthony Braxton,
June Days,
The Neon Judgement,
Slave,
Drexciya,
Minutemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Mo-Dettes,
Lindisfarne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kenny Larkin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hardrive,
Wolf Eyes,
The Vogues,
Eric B and Rakim,
Reuben Wilson,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masters at Work,
Monolake,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grauzone,
Crooked Eye,
Albert Ayler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Maurizio,
Toni Rubio,
Essential Logic,
Gang of Four,
Public Enemy,
Nirvana,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marmalade,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Los Fastidios,
Skriet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Massinfluence,
Prince Buster,
Oblivians,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.