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 Ireland and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus 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?
The Human League,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Surgeon,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nils Olav,
Crispian St. Peters,
Oneida,
The American Breed,
Von Mondo,
New York Dolls,
X-101,
Reagan Youth,
Inner City,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Spandau Ballet,
Animal Collective,
The Standells,
Blake Baxter,
The Zeros,
The Fuzztones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Zapp,
Kaleidoscope,
Echospace,
Wally Richardson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Techniques,
Matthew Bourne,
Sex Pistols,
Maurizio,
Cluster,
Blancmange,
Scan 7,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade,
Ultravox,
Sugar Minott,
This Heat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Make Up,
DJ Sneak,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Brass Construction,
Maleditus Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Suburban Knight,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Funkadelic,
Vainqueur,
K-Klass,
The Kinks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mantronix,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DJ Style,
Bobby Sherman,
Suicide,
Moss Icon,
Mark Hollis,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.