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 Qatar and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 Vainqueur to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Anthony Braxton,
Marcia Griffiths,
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Pop Group,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
Second Layer,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Black Dice,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
Public Image Ltd.,
Chris & Cosey,
Bob Dylan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aloha Tigers,
Bill Wells,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Drexciya,
F. McDonald,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Colin Newman,
OOIOO,
Cecil Taylor,
the Slits,
Nils Olav,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lower 48,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eric Dolphy,
Quantec,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alison Limerick,
Camberwell Now,
The Gun Club,
Rosa Yemen,
Section 25,
Ultra Naté,
The Standells,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Shuggie Otis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Supertramp,
Altered Images,
Q and Not U,
the Human League,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boz Scaggs,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.