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 East Timor and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bill Near to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
The Buckinghams,
The New Christs,
The Blues Magoos,
Althea and Donna,
Scrapy,
Bush Tetras,
The Star Department,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Idris Muhammad,
The Toasters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cybotron,
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Talk Talk,
ABC,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vladislav Delay,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Sheep,
Rotary Connection,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
The Residents,
Bill Near,
Depeche Mode,
Nils Olav,
Jandek,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joe Finger,
Aaron Thompson,
Masters at Work,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zapp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
cv313,
Metal Thangz,
Rites of Spring,
The Martian,
Ten City,
Banda Bassotti,
Magazine,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brass Construction,
Cameo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Max Romeo,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.