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 Comoros and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Harpers Bizarre to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 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 DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Kas Product,
The Evens,
Metal Thangz,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harmonia,
Heaven 17,
Parry Music,
Ten City,
Mars,
Deepchord,
John Coltrane,
China Crisis,
Marmalade,
Essential Logic,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Smiths,
The Doors,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lower 48,
Schoolly D,
Bluetip,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gichy Dan,
Mr. Review,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dirtbombs,
Jacques Brel,
Rotary Connection,
The Neon Judgement,
Reagan Youth,
Scrapy,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker,
The Walker Brothers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cowsills,
Kenny Larkin,
Anthony Braxton,
Motorama,
The Black Dice,
Fugazi,
The Buckinghams,
Ohio Players,
The Last Poets,
Masters at Work,
The Trojans,
Animal Collective,
Jacob Miller,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Spandau Ballet,
Zapp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu,
Tommy Roe,
Marcia Griffiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.