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 Sierra Leone and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 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 Gabor Szabo to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Neu!,
Charles Mingus,
The Busters,
The Associates,
Black Pus,
Lower 48,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wasted Youth,
The Standells,
Supertramp,
Soul II Soul,
Alton Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sarah Menescal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flipper,
Television Personalities,
The Beau Brummels,
Eli Mardock,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Shuggie Otis,
Average White Band,
The Zeros,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Shoche,
The Cramps,
Hashim,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Parry Music,
The Vogues,
Juan Atkins,
Nico,
The J.B.'s,
The Gories,
Max Romeo,
Gang Starr,
The Index,
the Bar-Kays,
Maleditus Sound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tomorrow,
Black Flag,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
the Sonics,
X-101,
Pantaleimon,
Zapp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Pierre Henry,
Lakeside,
Aaron Thompson,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.