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 Kosovo and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Metal Thangz to the techno 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Golliwogs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Dirtbombs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Anthony Braxton,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Toasters,
Dawn Penn,
Freddie Wadling,
Gastr Del Sol,
La Düsseldorf,
Quando Quango,
Aural Exciters,
Dual Sessions,
Lalann,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Bananas,
Bush Tetras,
Bizarre Inc.,
Livin' Joy,
Moby Grape,
Blake Baxter,
The Moody Blues,
Quadrant,
Skriet,
Robert Hood,
Erasure,
Roxette,
Soul II Soul,
Spoonie Gee,
Ice-T,
Stetsasonic,
Urselle,
Todd Rundgren,
The United States of America,
Unwound,
Royal Trux,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Association,
John Foxx,
Lou Christie,
Basic Channel,
The Walker Brothers,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Siglo XX,
The Velvet Underground,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ten City,
Barry Ungar,
The Beau Brummels,
Animal Collective,
The Seeds,
Scion,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.