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 Iceland and from New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
The Fall,
Hot Snakes,
The Evens,
Eric Dolphy,
Hasil Adkins,
Parry Music,
Carl Craig,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalann,
The Electric Prunes,
The Red Krayola,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Doobie Brothers,
Drexciya,
the Association,
Camberwell Now,
Todd Terry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vladislav Delay,
Newcleus,
48th St. Collective,
Peter & Gordon,
Warsaw,
Brick,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers,
Delta 5,
Glenn Branca,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Christie,
the Human League,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Zapp,
The Invisible,
Joe Finger,
The Durutti Column,
Gichy Dan,
Grauzone,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Victims,
Althea and Donna,
X-101,
The Sound,
Television Personalities,
Lungfish,
The Misunderstood,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Supertramp,
Throbbing Gristle,
Colin Newman,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.