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 Czech Republic and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the techno 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
Juan Atkins,
Tommy Roe,
David McCallum,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Red Krayola,
Interpol,
The Zeros,
The Blackbyrds,
Heaven 17,
Letta Mbulu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Thee Headcoats,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Schoolly D,
The Golliwogs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxy Music,
Shuggie Otis,
Gregory Isaacs,
David Axelrod,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
DJ Sneak,
The J.B.'s,
Wire,
Brass Construction,
Rotary Connection,
Albert Ayler,
Outsiders,
Banda Bassotti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Star Department,
Scientists,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Adolescents,
Yusef Lateef,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mummies,
Ice-T,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Selecter,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terry Callier,
Curtis Mayfield,
Don Cherry,
X-101,
The Smoke,
the Association,
Aswad,
The Searchers,
Alison Limerick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.