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 Australia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Agitation Free to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
James White and The Blacks,
Fear,
Harmonia,
Connie Case,
Barry Ungar,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crooked Eye,
Freddie Wadling,
Agent Orange,
The Count Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thompson Twins,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
10cc,
Absolute Body Control,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lalann,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
Kaleidoscope,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sonic Youth,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Von Mondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
Marvin Gaye,
Maleditus Sound,
MC5,
Joe Finger,
Soul II Soul,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sandy B,
Rekid,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Halsall,
Moby Grape,
Infiniti,
Pussy Galore,
Barbara Tucker,
The Tremeloes,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Near,
Adolescents,
Isaac Hayes,
X-102,
The Trojans,
Monks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Saccharine Trust,
The Misunderstood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.