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 Czech Republic and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
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 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 Supertramp to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Trumans Water,
Liliput,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scion,
The Gories,
Michelle Simonal,
The New Christs,
Fatback Band,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
AZ,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Skatalites,
Lakeside,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sugar Minott,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Normal,
Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
The Litter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hoover,
Bad Manners,
PIL,
Blossom Toes,
Nas,
Curtis Mayfield,
Public Enemy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dennis Brown,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jandek,
Ultra Naté,
Jeff Mills,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Human League,
John Holt,
Jerry's Kids,
Skarface,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Shuggie Otis,
Black Moon,
Main Source,
Gichy Dan,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.