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 Sudan and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Underground Resistance to the jazz 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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Chris Corsano,
The Doors,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Kenny Larkin,
Fela Kuti,
Barry Ungar,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Janne Schatter,
Jeff Mills,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Todd Rundgren,
Camberwell Now,
Brand Nubian,
the Sonics,
The Angels of Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Moss Icon,
Quadrant,
Donald Byrd,
Gang of Four,
Circle Jerks,
Tubeway Army,
Jerry's Kids,
cv313,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Seeds,
Soft Machine,
Spandau Ballet,
Pantytec,
Marmalade,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
Don Cherry,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Style,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kurtis Blow,
Tears for Fears,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jawbox,
L. Decosne,
The Stooges,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Iggy Pop,
Theoretical Girls,
Mad Mike,
Wire,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.