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 Slovakia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Scott Walker to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
Erasure,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Stooges,
Outsiders,
Thompson Twins,
Joe Smooth,
The Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Lower 48,
Quadrant,
The Gap Band,
Reagan Youth,
Ludus,
kango's stein massive,
Sound Behaviour,
Vladislav Delay,
The Techniques,
Aural Exciters,
The Cure,
Technova,
Hardrive,
Kayak,
Infiniti,
Circle Jerks,
Essential Logic,
Groovy Waters,
Pagans,
MDC,
Black Pus,
Dark Day,
The Saints,
Livin' Joy,
Banda Bassotti,
Joensuu 1685,
Fugazi,
Hasil Adkins,
Hoover,
The Vogues,
Soul II Soul,
Ohio Players,
Blossom Toes,
Rhythm & Sound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Names,
Graham Central Station,
The Angels of Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Suburban Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Womack,
These Immortal Souls,
Yellowson,
Malaria!,
Q and Not U,
Roger Hodgson,
Anakelly,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
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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.