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 Sri Lanka and from Salvador.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Eden Ahbez to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Leaves,
Bad Manners,
X-101,
Massinfluence,
Gichy Dan,
Ultra Naté,
Crispian St. Peters,
DJ Style,
Unrelated Segments,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
Goldenarms,
Make Up,
Pussy Galore,
Zapp,
The Count Five,
The Raincoats,
Skaos,
The Associates,
Bootsy Collins,
OOIOO,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fela Kuti,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
The Electric Prunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
A Certain Ratio,
Mr. Review,
Joyce Sims,
The Cramps,
Robert Görl,
Royal Trux,
Glambeats Corp.,
Khruangbin,
Magma,
Crispy Ambulance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Arab on Radar,
Scion,
Gastr Del Sol,
Absolute Body Control,
The Zeros,
The Seeds,
Eve St. Jones,
Von Mondo,
Carl Craig,
Amazonics,
X-Ray Spex,
Silicon Teens,
Suicide,
The Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.