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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gerry Rafferty to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
ABC,
The Shadows of Knight,
Maleditus Sound,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Warren Ellis,
The Victims,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cheater Slicks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lungfish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Robert Wyatt,
The Move,
Sonic Youth,
The Remains,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kas Product,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultra Naté,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Sonics,
Metal Thangz,
The Wake,
The Smoke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Surgeon,
Flash Fearless,
Bluetip,
Chrome,
Fad Gadget,
Outsiders,
Leonard Cohen,
Ludus,
Delta 5,
Brass Construction,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Bowie,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Beau Brummels,
Crime,
Arthur Verocai,
Soft Cell,
Interpol,
David Axelrod,
The Black Dice,
Dark Day,
Gang Starr,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tubeway Army,
Eve St. Jones,
Talk Talk,
Camberwell Now,
The Motions,
The Grass Roots,
The Real Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.