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 United States and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dark Day to the grime 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Sonic Youth,
Drive Like Jehu,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
The Cramps,
Sun City Girls,
The United States of America,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Smoke,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brothers Johnson,
the Sonics,
Amazonics,
The Offenders,
Jeff Lynne,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Invisible,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flash Fearless,
Tomorrow,
James White and The Blacks,
Theoretical Girls,
Monks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Sheep,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Mummies,
Aloha Tigers,
Royal Trux,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gastr Del Sol,
Altered Images,
Circle Jerks,
John Coltrane,
Dark Day,
The Kinks,
Ronan,
Dawn Penn,
Fear,
Bluetip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
New Age Steppers,
MDC,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Jawbox,
Gang Gang Dance,
Public Image Ltd.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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