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 Turkmenistan and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Motions to the crunk 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
the Swans,
Echospace,
Dead Boys,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
The Grass Roots,
The Offenders,
The American Breed,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rosa Yemen,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soft Machine,
Bobby Womack,
Boredoms,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Last Poets,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joensuu 1685,
Desert Stars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jawbox,
Talk Talk,
Franke,
Faraquet,
Joyce Sims,
Davy DMX,
Sandy B,
Ohio Players,
The Litter,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Hood,
Pantytec,
X-Ray Spex,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chris & Cosey,
June Days,
Khruangbin,
ABC,
Johnny Clarke,
Flipper,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Susan Cadogan,
Marvin Gaye,
Infiniti,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Television,
MC5,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barry Ungar,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.