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 Korea North and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the snare 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 Kenny Larkin to the grime 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
The Mummies,
The Cramps,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
Dave Gahan,
Althea and Donna,
Sparks,
Simply Red,
Flamin' Groovies,
Main Source,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Urselle,
Maurizio,
Reagan Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sarah Menescal,
Mo-Dettes,
Darondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Royal Trux,
Charles Mingus,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacques Brel,
Can,
Popol Vuh,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pussy Galore,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deepchord,
Stereo Dub,
Derrick May,
The Neon Judgement,
DNA,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bronski Beat,
Faust,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fortunes,
Rod Modell,
Gichy Dan,
Jawbox,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Infiniti,
The Victims,
Joe Finger,
Technova,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.