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 Zimbabwe and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Jeff Lynne,
Silicon Teens,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxy Music,
The Angels of Light,
Jandek,
Gang Starr,
Underground Resistance,
Carl Craig,
Camberwell Now,
Oneida,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
a-ha,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crooked Eye,
Adolescents,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marmalade,
Pulsallama,
Archie Shepp,
The Velvet Underground,
Babytalk,
Freddie Wadling,
Japan,
Parry Music,
Joy Division,
Whodini,
Slave,
Slick Rick,
Country Teasers,
Television Personalities,
Technova,
Desert Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Peter and Kerry,
Cybotron,
New Order,
Aaron Thompson,
Crash Course in Science,
Newcleus,
Tres Demented,
Quando Quango,
the Association,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dirtbombs,
Dark Day,
Brothers Johnson,
Neu!,
Altered Images,
Spoonie Gee,
Brass Construction,
The Dead C,
Electric Prunes,
Ultimate Spinach,
David Bowie,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.