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 Yemen and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Symarip to the punk 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Babytalk,
Peter and Kerry,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smiths,
Cameo,
Absolute Body Control,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Robert Wyatt,
Adolescents,
Joyce Sims,
Chris Corsano,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Intrusion,
Half Japanese,
Eurythmics,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Vogues,
Nirvana,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Drexciya,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yusef Lateef,
Anakelly,
Dave Gahan,
Lungfish,
Animal Collective,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magazine,
Scientists,
Interpol,
Agent Orange,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Bananas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cure,
Schoolly D,
The Busters,
Bluetip,
Nas,
Heaven 17,
Funkadelic,
Roger Hodgson,
Rakim,
Malaria!,
The Saints,
The Dirtbombs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Los Fastidios,
Agitation Free,
Rufus Thomas,
The Selecter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scrapy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Zapp,
DNA,
The Seeds,
Tom Boy,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.