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 Gambia and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Robert Palmer 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the grime 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Mad Mike,
Ice-T,
Cameo,
The Blackbyrds,
Boredoms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cecil Taylor,
Au Pairs,
Roxette,
The Raincoats,
Rod Modell,
MC5,
Bronski Beat,
The Remains,
PIL,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Main Source,
Slick Rick,
The Knickerbockers,
The Skatalites,
Kool Moe Dee,
Reagan Youth,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Sheep,
David Bowie,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
The Walker Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gabor Szabo,
Sonic Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Bauhaus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Masters at Work,
The Grass Roots,
Sound Behaviour,
Loose Ends,
Morten Harket,
Wally Richardson,
Carl Craig,
The Gun Club,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Isaac Hayes,
KRS-One,
the Human League,
Faust,
Hasil Adkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Matthew Halsall,
Hoover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Monolake,
Kenny Larkin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
Tubeway Army,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.