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 Mauritius and from Johannesburg.
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 Paris and Milan.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rock 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hot Snakes,
Dave Gahan,
Main Source,
Talk Talk,
Neil Young,
Eddi Front,
Soul II Soul,
Pagans,
David Bowie,
Archie Shepp,
Minutemen,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Divine Comedy,
Theoretical Girls,
The Motions,
Eurythmics,
Arab on Radar,
Kerri Chandler,
Lightning Bolt,
T. Rex,
Charles Mingus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eric B and Rakim,
The J.B.'s,
Popol Vuh,
Gichy Dan,
The Fortunes,
Mission of Burma,
Hoover,
David McCallum,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Cale,
Slave,
Rufus Thomas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Swans,
The Star Department,
The Gladiators,
Ken Boothe,
Eric Dolphy,
Panda Bear,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scott Walker,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Standells,
Black Flag,
Grey Daturas,
Iggy Pop,
Skaos,
Skarface,
Black Sheep,
Soft Machine,
Anthony Braxton,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.