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 Nicaragua and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mars to the funk 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Albert Ayler,
Sandy B,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
CMW,
Hoover,
The Fuzztones,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Moon,
Piero Umiliani,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Public Enemy,
Sonic Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Star Department,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tropical Tobacco,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Names,
Thee Headcoats,
Joy Division,
John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Cal Tjader,
Circle Jerks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sam Rivers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cluster,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Copeland,
Lindisfarne,
John Foxx,
Flash Fearless,
Ludus,
Alison Limerick,
F. McDonald,
Scan 7,
Lungfish,
Slick Rick,
L. Decosne,
Erykah Badu,
Johnny Osbourne,
ABC,
B.T. Express,
Robert Görl,
Hasil Adkins,
Grey Daturas,
Donny Hathaway,
The Associates,
The Knickerbockers,
Arthur Verocai,
Alphaville,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.