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 Armenia and from Manila.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 chamberlin 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 DeepChord presents Echospace 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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Sound Behaviour,
Michelle Simonal,
The Red Krayola,
The Golliwogs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Selecter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jawbox,
Quadrant,
Echospace,
Scan 7,
Audionom,
Drexciya,
June Days,
The Electric Prunes,
Grey Daturas,
Country Teasers,
Cheater Slicks,
The New Christs,
Bootsy Collins,
Los Fastidios,
Little Man,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arcadia,
Anakelly,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quantec,
Rotary Connection,
Rekid,
Ice-T,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Susan Cadogan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cymande,
Erykah Badu,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sällskapet,
Electric Prunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joensuu 1685,
The Motions,
Outsiders,
Todd Terry,
The Victims,
Symarip,
Suburban Knight,
Soul Sonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
DJ Sneak,
The Smoke,
Buzzcocks,
Silicon Teens,
Camouflage,
Swans,
The Searchers,
Dark Day,
Marine Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.