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 Israel and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eden Ahbez to the rap 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Pylon,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
Bill Wells,
Whodini,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gap Band,
Radiohead,
The Trojans,
Ronan,
Motorama,
The Fuzztones,
The Velvet Underground,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
Von Mondo,
Rapeman,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ohio Players,
Davy DMX,
Fela Kuti,
Susan Cadogan,
Brand Nubian,
Peter & Gordon,
Television Personalities,
Tom Boy,
Hot Snakes,
Groovy Waters,
Saccharine Trust,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Anakelly,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
ABC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Surgeon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bluetip,
DJ Style,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brass Construction,
Half Japanese,
Sex Pistols,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bauhaus,
Agent Orange,
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Invisible,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mantronix,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fire Engines,
Sister Nancy,
The Durutti Column,
Royal Trux,
Johnny Osbourne,
Audionom,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.