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 Canada and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grandmaster Flash to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Flipper,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
Godley & Creme,
The Durutti Column,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grauzone,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reuben Wilson,
Marc Almond,
Lebanon Hanover,
June Days,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Duran Duran,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Skatalites,
Deepchord,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
Barry Ungar,
Skarface,
Rakim,
In Retrospect,
Lungfish,
Animal Collective,
Quadrant,
Little Man,
The Stooges,
Shuggie Otis,
The Motions,
Radio Birdman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Monks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blancmange,
The Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camberwell Now,
D'Angelo,
Ronan,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cowsills,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Swell Maps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Symarip,
L. Decosne,
Pole,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Masters at Work,
New Order,
The Red Krayola,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.