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 Zambia 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 La Düsseldorf to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Loose Ends,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pulsallama,
Dead Boys,
Ice-T,
Marmalade,
Agitation Free,
DJ Sneak,
The New Christs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Black Sheep,
Toni Rubio,
Johnny Clarke,
Aaron Thompson,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Grass Roots,
Qualms,
Deakin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jeff Lynne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Icehouse,
Moss Icon,
Leonard Cohen,
Accadde A,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Underground Resistance,
Kaleidoscope,
Brass Construction,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Absolute Body Control,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minny Pops,
Godley & Creme,
Stereo Dub,
Althea and Donna,
Grey Daturas,
The Raincoats,
Chris & Cosey,
Dual Sessions,
Negative Approach,
Rites of Spring,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lucky Dragons,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grauzone,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sam Rivers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Das Ding,
Stiv Bators,
The Fire Engines,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.