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 the UAE and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 The New Christs 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Animal Collective,
Loose Ends,
The Remains,
Bobby Womack,
Peter and Kerry,
Procol Harum,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter & Gordon,
H. Thieme,
Radio Birdman,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rekid,
DJ Sneak,
Quantec,
10cc,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Siglo XX,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heaven 17,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camouflage,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sun City Girls,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Bowie,
The Pretty Things,
Shoche,
The Cramps,
Archie Shepp,
Gong,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
Eddi Front,
AZ,
Scion,
Chris & Cosey,
K-Klass,
Barrington Levy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Piero Umiliani,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Index,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Byron Stingily,
Funky Four + One,
Vladislav Delay,
Fluxion,
Glenn Branca,
Charles Mingus,
Hasil Adkins,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.