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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Ten City,
Max Romeo,
Deepchord,
Bad Manners,
Magma,
The Zeros,
CMW,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wally Richardson,
Swans,
Gichy Dan,
Derrick Morgan,
Little Man,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Offenders,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joe Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bauhaus,
Groovy Waters,
Dead Boys,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Intrusion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marcia Griffiths,
Anthony Braxton,
Eden Ahbez,
Skaos,
Judy Mowatt,
Todd Terry,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Halsall,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visage,
KRS-One,
The Mummies,
Siglo XX,
Tres Demented,
Brand Nubian,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
New Order,
The Birthday Party,
D'Angelo,
This Heat,
Monolake,
Unwound,
The Black Dice,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Avey Tare,
Parry Music,
Susan Cadogan,
Minutemen,
DJ Style,
Agent Orange,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.