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 Cuba and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
The Slits,
The Alarm Clocks,
Amon Düül,
Black Moon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gun Club,
Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Silicon Teens,
Dual Sessions,
Delta 5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Visage,
Ponytail,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scan 7,
Steve Hackett,
Ronan,
The New Christs,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Kaleidoscope,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monochrome Set,
Roger Hodgson,
The Toasters,
Minutemen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Albert Ayler,
Eddi Front,
Morten Harket,
Dark Day,
Pole,
Boz Scaggs,
Max Romeo,
New York Dolls,
Procol Harum,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bauhaus,
Boogie Down Productions,
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
June of 44,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
Slave,
Desert Stars,
Gang Green,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Franke,
Trumans Water,
Girls At Our Best!,
Idris Muhammad,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Divine Comedy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.