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 Cambodia and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Con Funk Shun to the grime 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joy Division,
Black Moon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
The J.B.'s,
Black Sheep,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Second Layer,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Beau Brummels,
Toni Rubio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David McCallum,
Wire,
Dark Day,
Piero Umiliani,
John Coltrane,
Porter Ricks,
Albert Ayler,
World's Most,
Outsiders,
Aural Exciters,
La Düsseldorf,
Eric Copeland,
The Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
Bill Near,
Fugazi,
kango's stein massive,
John Foxx,
Jawbox,
John Holt,
48th St. Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nico,
L. Decosne,
Popol Vuh,
Yaz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Smiths,
The Remains,
Ornette Coleman,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tommy Roe,
Leonard Cohen,
Sarah Menescal,
The Saints,
Pole,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Teasers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
K-Klass,
Fatback Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.