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 Rwanda and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The J.B.'s to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barry Ungar,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Black Dice,
The American Breed,
Monolake,
In Retrospect,
Tropical Tobacco,
Drexciya,
Whodini,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bill Wells,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marcia Griffiths,
Reagan Youth,
Massinfluence,
OOIOO,
Toni Rubio,
Kayak,
Warsaw,
R.M.O.,
Mad Mike,
Blancmange,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Tears for Fears,
Soul II Soul,
The Cowsills,
The Index,
Sixth Finger,
Spandau Ballet,
Tim Buckley,
Marine Girls,
Swell Maps,
Von Mondo,
Scrapy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Colin Newman,
B.T. Express,
T.S.O.L.,
The Blues Magoos,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sister Nancy,
H. Thieme,
Lebanon Hanover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Y Pants,
Swans,
Procol Harum,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.