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 St Lucia and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Barry Ungar to the techno 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Bill Near,
H. Thieme,
PIL,
The Detroit Cobras,
Altered Images,
Malaria!,
Juan Atkins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
Bill Wells,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scan 7,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joyce Sims,
Derrick Morgan,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
Johnny Osbourne,
Japan,
Michelle Simonal,
Henry Cow,
The Busters,
The Cure,
The Misunderstood,
Roxette,
Crooked Eye,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hardrive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Iggy Pop,
Ituana,
Rakim,
The Fuzztones,
Trumans Water,
Symarip,
Guru Guru,
Bauhaus,
Rekid,
Bob Dylan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Arthur Verocai,
Siglo XX,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonny Sharrock,
China Crisis,
Jawbox,
Outsiders,
Amon Düül,
D'Angelo,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
Hashim,
Lower 48,
Khruangbin,
Warren Ellis,
Peter and Kerry,
Erykah Badu,
Thee Headcoats,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.