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 Kyrgyzstan and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the snare 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 X-102 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fatback Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Fluxion,
Jeff Mills,
FM Einheit,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nas,
Eli Mardock,
Skaos,
Sound Behaviour,
The Raincoats,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
Barrington Levy,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Silicon Teens,
Minutemen,
Section 25,
New Order,
Duran Duran,
The Walker Brothers,
Circle Jerks,
Qualms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Slackers,
Sonic Youth,
Pere Ubu,
Basic Channel,
the Sonics,
KRS-One,
The Human League,
Porter Ricks,
New Age Steppers,
Soul II Soul,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Unrelated Segments,
The Blackbyrds,
Marine Girls,
Khruangbin,
Livin' Joy,
PIL,
Model 500,
Ponytail,
Quantec,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rekid,
Grauzone,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mantronix,
Guru Guru,
Subhumans,
Nik Kershaw,
The United States of America,
The Searchers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eve St. Jones,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.