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 Congo and from Johannesburg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Agitation Free to the disco 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ten City,
Second Layer,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Moleskins,
Deadbeat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Index,
The Sonics,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mo-Dettes,
Rakim,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hot Snakes,
Rekid,
Altered Images,
Can,
Swans,
Roxy Music,
Bob Dylan,
Thompson Twins,
The Birthday Party,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
H. Thieme,
Infiniti,
Brass Construction,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alton Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
OOIOO,
Dead Boys,
Jacques Brel,
Dave Gahan,
Groovy Waters,
This Heat,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Basic Channel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Monolake,
Ice-T,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
cv313,
MC5,
Sound Behaviour,
Traffic Nightmare,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash,
MDC,
Lucky Dragons,
John Foxx,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Interpol,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.