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 Zambia and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Avey Tare to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
The Trojans,
Dennis Brown,
Intrusion,
The Saints,
Khruangbin,
The Smiths,
Underground Resistance,
Flipper,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donald Byrd,
Chrome,
The Victims,
Harpers Bizarre,
Alphaville,
Cheater Slicks,
Half Japanese,
Blancmange,
ABBA,
Television Personalities,
The Doors,
Sandy B,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minor Threat,
Skriet,
Reuben Wilson,
June Days,
The Knickerbockers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anthony Braxton,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soul II Soul,
the Sonics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rites of Spring,
John Holt,
Visage,
Lalann,
Darondo,
Sarah Menescal,
Negative Approach,
The Fugs,
Crime,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Five Americans,
Massinfluence,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Foxx,
Subhumans,
Susan Cadogan,
Tomorrow,
The Monks,
Jacob Miller,
Pere Ubu,
the Slits,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.