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 Malta and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Ice-T to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Gang Starr,
Siglo XX,
Sarah Menescal,
Intrusion,
Mars,
Bluetip,
The Monochrome Set,
Skaos,
Cecil Taylor,
Amon Düül,
FM Einheit,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marmalade,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gladiators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joy Division,
LL Cool J,
A Certain Ratio,
China Crisis,
John Holt,
The Stooges,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Royal Trux,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Monks,
Aswad,
Kayak,
Yellowson,
Letta Mbulu,
Trumans Water,
Index,
Roxy Music,
The Moody Blues,
the Normal,
Fluxion,
The Misunderstood,
The Velvet Underground,
Archie Shepp,
Michelle Simonal,
Eli Mardock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stiv Bators,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aaron Thompson,
Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cure,
kango's stein massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
The New Christs,
The Sonics,
Danielle Patucci,
The Residents,
Zero Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
Flipper,
The Divine Comedy,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.