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 Barbados and from Lyon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Aswad to the electroclash 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deadbeat,
Lalann,
Young Marble Giants,
Gichy Dan,
Prince Buster,
The Blues Magoos,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pole,
Television,
Lou Christie,
Technova,
Cluster,
Albert Ayler,
Symarip,
Pagans,
Icehouse,
ABBA,
Black Pus,
Soft Machine,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Holt,
La Düsseldorf,
Junior Murvin,
Max Romeo,
the Germs,
Dawn Penn,
New Age Steppers,
the Soft Cell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Patti Smith,
The Skatalites,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Durutti Column,
The Dead C,
R.M.O.,
The Selecter,
EPMD,
The Star Department,
Barbara Tucker,
Camouflage,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ohio Players,
Joe Smooth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ken Boothe,
Skaos,
Crooked Eye,
Johnny Clarke,
Jawbox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Hashim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grauzone,
Crime,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.