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 Dominica and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 FM Einheit to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cal Tjader,
The Gladiators,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Excepter,
Mantronix,
Anthony Braxton,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
Roger Hodgson,
The Wake,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
F. McDonald,
The Raincoats,
The Mummies,
Schoolly D,
Basic Channel,
The Velvet Underground,
The Buckinghams,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Erykah Badu,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter and Kerry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tom Boy,
Byron Stingily,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
Fela Kuti,
Pussy Galore,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Last Poets,
Procol Harum,
Ohio Players,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
One Last Wish,
Motorama,
Lalo Schifrin,
Todd Rundgren,
Country Teasers,
Au Pairs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Buzzcocks,
Mars,
Gong,
Yazoo,
The Doors,
Metal Thangz,
Model 500,
Q and Not U,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
Isaac Hayes,
JFA,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
The Selecter,
Massinfluence,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.