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 Italy and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ossler to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New York Dolls,
Khruangbin,
Skarface,
Thompson Twins,
Sight & Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Walker Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Moebius,
Soul Sonic Force,
Schoolly D,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Pagans,
The Saints,
Colin Newman,
Blake Baxter,
Nas,
U.S. Maple,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
FM Einheit,
Pierre Henry,
Minutemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bizarre Inc.,
Index,
MC5,
Robert Hood,
L. Decosne,
Eli Mardock,
World's Most,
Babytalk,
Carl Craig,
Harpers Bizarre,
Morten Harket,
Barry Ungar,
Pantytec,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fela Kuti,
Yazoo,
DJ Sneak,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Janne Schatter,
the Sonics,
D'Angelo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lakeside,
Unwound,
Camouflage,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.