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 United Kingdom and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Agitation Free to the electroclash 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
Blancmange,
Laurel Aitken,
The Blackbyrds,
kango's stein massive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minutemen,
David McCallum,
John Coltrane,
Joe Finger,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quantec,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bill Near,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Derrick May,
Crash Course in Science,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ken Boothe,
Swell Maps,
Dawn Penn,
Dark Day,
Camberwell Now,
Peter and Kerry,
Roger Hodgson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
PIL,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pussy Galore,
Ornette Coleman,
Television,
Zero Boys,
Joyce Sims,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Five Americans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bauhaus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deepchord,
Grauzone,
Lou Reed,
Don Cherry,
Pierre Henry,
Maleditus Sound,
Quando Quango,
Talk Talk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Skatalites,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Names,
Magma,
Fad Gadget,
The Vogues,
World's Most,
Jawbox,
Angry Samoans,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.