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 Qatar and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Black Pus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
The Vogues,
Aswad,
Pulsallama,
Television,
Outsiders,
These Immortal Souls,
Fela Kuti,
The United States of America,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
PIL,
Easy Going,
Barry Ungar,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spoonie Gee,
Los Fastidios,
Harry Pussy,
Suicide,
Bang On A Can,
cv313,
The Residents,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bad Manners,
Cheater Slicks,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Delta 5,
Faust,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rekid,
Laurel Aitken,
Ice-T,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Girls At Our Best!,
The American Breed,
Ohio Players,
Eurythmics,
June of 44,
The Motions,
Rotary Connection,
Slave,
The Pretty Things,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed,
Danielle Patucci,
James Chance & The Contortions,
China Crisis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Boredoms,
Crispian St. Peters,
Angry Samoans,
The Index,
T. Rex,
Skarface,
Chris Corsano,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.