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 Dominican Republic and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Slave to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
John Holt,
June Days,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Sonics,
Sällskapet,
Roy Ayers,
Urselle,
Michelle Simonal,
Davy DMX,
Derrick May,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
LL Cool J,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Desert Stars,
Unrelated Segments,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Deadbeat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
10cc,
Kool Moe Dee,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Neu!,
Average White Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scrapy,
Absolute Body Control,
Sister Nancy,
Loose Ends,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lakeside,
Eric Copeland,
Bill Wells,
The Buckinghams,
Vainqueur,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Erasure,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soul Sonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Skarface,
Peter & Gordon,
Stereo Dub,
Eddi Front,
Lindisfarne,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Zeros,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camouflage,
Alison Limerick,
kango's stein massive,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deepchord,
Yusef Lateef,
Big Daddy Kane,
June of 44,
Sun Ra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Archie Shepp,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.