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 San Marino and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Pop Group to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ronnie Foster,
Sound Behaviour,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sam Rivers,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Order,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
Lungfish,
The Grass Roots,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Matthew Bourne,
Skriet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Wasted Youth,
Unrelated Segments,
the Fania All-Stars,
Little Man,
H. Thieme,
Henry Cow,
Vladislav Delay,
Parry Music,
Eurythmics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Country Teasers,
The Knickerbockers,
Underground Resistance,
Siglo XX,
Kaleidoscope,
Silicon Teens,
the Association,
Faust,
Be Bop Deluxe,
R.M.O.,
T.S.O.L.,
Idris Muhammad,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Monks,
Lindisfarne,
Japan,
L. Decosne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Slits,
Rufus Thomas,
Ronan,
Erasure,
Y Pants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fuzztones,
The Sonics,
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.