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 Denmark and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 One Last Wish to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joyce Sims,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
Erykah Badu,
F. McDonald,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deepchord,
Ronan,
UT,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Mojo Men,
Public Enemy,
Camberwell Now,
Smog,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Terry,
The Grass Roots,
New Age Steppers,
Warsaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eli Mardock,
The Doobie Brothers,
Severed Heads,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David Axelrod,
Hoover,
The Buckinghams,
Brass Construction,
Curtis Mayfield,
Davy DMX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Supertramp,
Connie Case,
Soulsonic Force,
Sonny Sharrock,
Warren Ellis,
The Fugs,
The Fuzztones,
The Beau Brummels,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
The Slackers,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kenny Larkin,
Monks,
Tomorrow,
Funkadelic,
Hardrive,
Bobby Byrd,
Von Mondo,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.