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 Egypt and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Rod Modell to the grime 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Scientists,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kerri Chandler,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Rundgren,
Scion,
Rosa Yemen,
Guru Guru,
Von Mondo,
kango's stein massive,
Junior Murvin,
Colin Newman,
Ohio Players,
Camouflage,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Duran Duran,
Grauzone,
Anakelly,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zapp,
The Dead C,
Maurizio,
Metal Thangz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skaos,
Angry Samoans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
The Pretty Things,
The Angels of Light,
U.S. Maple,
The Black Dice,
Ronnie Foster,
Mark Hollis,
The Music Machine,
Bill Near,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mantronix,
Sly & The Family Stone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New York Dolls,
The Litter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Underground Resistance,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lyres,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tom Boy,
Ossler,
L. Decosne,
D'Angelo,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.