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 Chile and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joey Negro 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Pulsallama,
EPMD,
Marine Girls,
Half Japanese,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
F. McDonald,
Eric Copeland,
Saccharine Trust,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Spoonie Gee,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Lynne,
Livin' Joy,
Circle Jerks,
MC5,
Scott Walker,
Rapeman,
Hasil Adkins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Henry Cow,
Chris & Cosey,
John Holt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
June Days,
Jacques Brel,
Television,
The Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q and Not U,
OOIOO,
Bob Dylan,
Sandy B,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dave Clark Five,
Procol Harum,
Althea and Donna,
Crime,
Groovy Waters,
Joey Negro,
The United States of America,
Chris Corsano,
Jandek,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
The Beau Brummels,
Don Cherry,
The Knickerbockers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quantec,
Jeru the Damaja,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
Nik Kershaw,
David Axelrod,
Max Romeo,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fall,
The Mojo Men,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.