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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Todd Terry to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tom Boy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Organ,
Mary Jane Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
The Divine Comedy,
Vladislav Delay,
Lindisfarne,
Unrelated Segments,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rites of Spring,
Minny Pops,
Index,
Black Moon,
Girls At Our Best!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Invisible,
Idris Muhammad,
Nation of Ulysses,
DJ Sneak,
The Wake,
The Cramps,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Moody Blues,
The Real Kids,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sixth Finger,
Rotary Connection,
Lower 48,
The Moleskins,
Ponytail,
The Barracudas,
Hoover,
Camberwell Now,
Morten Harket,
Severed Heads,
FM Einheit,
Procol Harum,
The Blues Magoos,
One Last Wish,
Aswad,
T.S.O.L.,
Spoonie Gee,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wally Richardson,
Amon Düül,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Goldenarms,
Thompson Twins,
The Fall,
MDC,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
KRS-One,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
X-102,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.