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 Kenya and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter & Gordon to the rap 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Graham Central Station,
Metal Thangz,
Half Japanese,
John Holt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Quantec,
DJ Style,
Peter and Kerry,
The Trojans,
MDC,
Leonard Cohen,
Barry Ungar,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Charles Mingus,
Amon Düül II,
The Busters,
Bobby Byrd,
Ice-T,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wasted Youth,
Japan,
The Motions,
Warsaw,
Thompson Twins,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra,
Stereo Dub,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
China Crisis,
Jeff Mills,
Franke,
The Associates,
The Mojo Men,
Moebius,
The Gladiators,
Jimmy McGriff,
Amazonics,
Scott Walker,
Prince Buster,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alphaville,
Lungfish,
Bang On A Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
Skarface,
Robert Görl,
ABBA,
The Barracudas,
Easy Going,
Brass Construction,
Faraquet,
Deepchord,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Toasters,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lucky Dragons,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.