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 Yemen and from Manchester.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crispy Ambulance 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
Heaven 17,
Soulsonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang of Four,
Tim Buckley,
Inner City,
Kenny Larkin,
Popol Vuh,
Joyce Sims,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Black Bananas,
Little Man,
Kurtis Blow,
D'Angelo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delon & Dalcan,
New Age Steppers,
Unwound,
Lakeside,
DJ Sneak,
Gabor Szabo,
Kevin Saunderson,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
KRS-One,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Mills,
Audionom,
Gil Scott Heron,
Easy Going,
Nils Olav,
Ultimate Spinach,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Howard Jones,
The Stooges,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed,
Joe Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
Danielle Patucci,
T.S.O.L.,
Cal Tjader,
Wasted Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Average White Band,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.