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 Egypt and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Kerrie Biddell 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Section 25,
Depeche Mode,
Sister Nancy,
Pantaleimon,
The Vogues,
Lindisfarne,
Faraquet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Althea and Donna,
Magma,
Deadbeat,
Soft Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joy Division,
Sound Behaviour,
Y Pants,
Sonny Sharrock,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camberwell Now,
Anthony Braxton,
Agitation Free,
KRS-One,
Fatback Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Rites of Spring,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
Royal Trux,
Saccharine Trust,
The Invisible,
The Kinks,
Pole,
Quadrant,
Von Mondo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Young Rascals,
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris Corsano,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fluxion,
The Index,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Chris & Cosey,
Stetsasonic,
Barrington Levy,
Gang of Four,
The Black Dice,
Siglo XX,
Kaleidoscope,
Max Romeo,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.