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 El Salvador and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lalo Schifrin 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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Infiniti,
Grey Daturas,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
X-Ray Spex,
Jeff Lynne,
John Lydon,
Chris Corsano,
The Golliwogs,
Outsiders,
Royal Trux,
Mary Jane Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mad Mike,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fluxion,
Banda Bassotti,
Kerri Chandler,
Smog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Darondo,
The Beau Brummels,
Althea and Donna,
Wire,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
The Black Dice,
Robert Wyatt,
This Heat,
Unwound,
Porter Ricks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Khruangbin,
Cheater Slicks,
Brand Nubian,
Bang On A Can,
New Age Steppers,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cowsills,
Crime,
Main Source,
The Remains,
Sound Behaviour,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nico,
The Skatalites,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Animal Collective,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.