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 Benin and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dorothy Ashby to the rock 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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 Five Americans,
Anakelly,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Depeche Mode,
Kenny Larkin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roger Hodgson,
The Buckinghams,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
FM Einheit,
Charles Mingus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warsaw,
The Offenders,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Hashim,
Interpol,
Bad Manners,
The Associates,
Sound Behaviour,
Japan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skriet,
Hasil Adkins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
Bob Dylan,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
China Crisis,
Roxy Music,
Todd Terry,
The United States of America,
Fela Kuti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Zero Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
the Germs,
The Misunderstood,
Dual Sessions,
Sight & Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Jeru the Damaja,
Slick Rick,
Drexciya,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neu!,
The Evens,
Rosa Yemen,
Dark Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.