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 Kiribati and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Deepchord to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
kango's stein massive,
The Residents,
The Real Kids,
Bauhaus,
Accadde A,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Wyatt,
Banda Bassotti,
Moby Grape,
Hoover,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Sherman,
OOIOO,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül II,
The Dead C,
Hardrive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacob Miller,
The Pretty Things,
Agitation Free,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Swans,
Leonard Cohen,
Sugar Minott,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Jacques Brel,
Urselle,
Rakim,
Idris Muhammad,
Archie Shepp,
The Fuzztones,
The Modern Lovers,
Sixth Finger,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Cell,
UT,
The Cure,
Black Moon,
cv313,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
ABC,
The Velvet Underground,
Porter Ricks,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Max Romeo,
Freddie Wadling,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.