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 Jamaica and from Stockholm.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sugar Minott to the electroclash 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
OOIOO,
Kaleidoscope,
Unrelated Segments,
Schoolly D,
DNA,
Qualms,
Trumans Water,
Soft Cell,
The Dead C,
Hot Snakes,
Bad Manners,
The Associates,
The Slackers,
Skriet,
Magazine,
Magma,
Sister Nancy,
Outsiders,
Surgeon,
The United States of America,
Hoover,
Throbbing Gristle,
Warren Ellis,
Wolf Eyes,
The Slits,
Joyce Sims,
James White and The Blacks,
The Fall,
E-Dancer,
Au Pairs,
Basic Channel,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeff Mills,
The Walker Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
John Lydon,
Todd Terry,
Althea and Donna,
Saccharine Trust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cybotron,
Minor Threat,
The Vogues,
Spoonie Gee,
Sixth Finger,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry's Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wally Richardson,
Dark Day,
Alison Limerick,
Audionom,
Darondo,
Index,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Motorama,
The Durutti Column,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Beau Brummels,
the Bar-Kays,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.