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 Egypt and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare 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 cv313 to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bush Tetras,
Average White Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sugar Minott,
Simply Red,
Bill Wells,
Basic Channel,
Circle Jerks,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter & Gordon,
Joey Negro,
Sixth Finger,
Reagan Youth,
The Stooges,
Babytalk,
Yellowson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Trojans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Swans,
Joyce Sims,
The Blackbyrds,
Jacob Miller,
Cybotron,
Deadbeat,
Alton Ellis,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pharoah Sanders,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sound,
Quadrant,
The Birthday Party,
The Standells,
Stockholm Monsters,
Panda Bear,
Ohio Players,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alphaville,
Radiohead,
Deakin,
Wolf Eyes,
Quando Quango,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Monolake,
Absolute Body Control,
The Zeros,
Flash Fearless,
Erykah Badu,
Crime,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nas,
The Barracudas,
June Days,
Magma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neu!,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.