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 Netherlands and from Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Panda Bear to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Davy DMX,
Sam Rivers,
Aswad,
Brick,
T.S.O.L.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lungfish,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Womack,
Andrew Hill,
Nik Kershaw,
Popol Vuh,
Chris Corsano,
Schoolly D,
Technova,
UT,
Sight & Sound,
Duran Duran,
the Sonics,
JFA,
Cymande,
Gichy Dan,
Shoche,
Groovy Waters,
Alison Limerick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Quantec,
AZ,
Rekid,
John Cale,
The Monochrome Set,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Ken Boothe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soul II Soul,
The Fall,
Second Layer,
DJ Style,
Lucky Dragons,
Magazine,
Tim Buckley,
Zero Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
Swans,
David McCallum,
Graham Central Station,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
Gang of Four,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Glenn Branca,
Jacques Brel,
Cluster,
Lalo Schifrin,
Matthew Halsall,
The Residents,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
48th St. Collective,
Crooked Eye,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.