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 Australia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 LL Cool J to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Camouflage,
Roger Hodgson,
Moby Grape,
Lucky Dragons,
Unwound,
Matthew Halsall,
John Lydon,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Kas Product,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fatback Band,
The Divine Comedy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crime,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Monolake,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fall,
Crash Course in Science,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Albert Ayler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wire,
Gong,
DNA,
Gichy Dan,
Clear Light,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Shadows of Knight,
Siglo XX,
The Doors,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joe Smooth,
Lower 48,
Alton Ellis,
Index,
Marvin Gaye,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
Japan,
Cal Tjader,
The Offenders,
Motorama,
The Velvet Underground,
Organ,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Model 500,
Schoolly D,
The Red Krayola,
Mr. Review,
Altered Images,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marc Almond,
Sun Ra,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.