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 Tajikistan and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Sandy B to the dance 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The J.B.'s,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dawn Penn,
The Litter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scott Walker,
KRS-One,
Letta Mbulu,
The Raincoats,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Birthday Party,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
T. Rex,
Bootsy Collins,
Joy Division,
B.T. Express,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Golliwogs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cure,
The Invisible,
Blancmange,
Monks,
The United States of America,
The Monks,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fire Engines,
Soul Sonic Force,
Interpol,
Groovy Waters,
X-102,
Clear Light,
Scrapy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eddi Front,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
OOIOO,
Stetsasonic,
a-ha,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Brass Construction,
Panda Bear,
Yusef Lateef,
Gichy Dan,
The Trojans,
Deepchord,
The Misunderstood,
Lyres,
Goldenarms,
A Certain Ratio,
Inner City,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.