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 Congo and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Sight & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Brass Construction,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joensuu 1685,
Main Source,
Whodini,
The Slits,
Nik Kershaw,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Magazine,
Scan 7,
The Wake,
Skaos,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
Patti Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
Eddi Front,
Ohio Players,
Country Teasers,
Supertramp,
Boz Scaggs,
Moebius,
Anthony Braxton,
Cheater Slicks,
Maleditus Sound,
Visage,
Audionom,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Leaves,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smoke,
D'Angelo,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Names,
Animal Collective,
Boredoms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
H. Thieme,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grauzone,
Skarface,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television,
The Kinks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Saints,
David Bowie,
FM Einheit,
Chrome,
Lalann,
Steve Hackett,
The Fire Engines,
The Doors,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sound,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.