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 Slovakia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 June of 44 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
AZ,
Laurel Aitken,
The Standells,
Q and Not U,
Ponytail,
Donald Byrd,
Piero Umiliani,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nick Fraelich,
The Divine Comedy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mandrill,
F. McDonald,
Urselle,
Josef K,
Letta Mbulu,
Gang Green,
Charles Mingus,
The Slits,
The Litter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chris & Cosey,
OOIOO,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Roy Ayers,
E-Dancer,
Brothers Johnson,
Negative Approach,
Los Fastidios,
Saccharine Trust,
The Shadows of Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Move,
The Leaves,
Judy Mowatt,
Youth Brigade,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Mills,
Kaleidoscope,
Tommy Roe,
Delta 5,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Index,
Silicon Teens,
The Seeds,
Steve Hackett,
Pylon,
Freddie Wadling,
Cameo,
Scratch Acid,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Five Americans,
Peter and Kerry,
Aaron Thompson,
Pulsallama,
the Slits,
Radiopuhelimet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Pretty Things,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.