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 Yemen 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Crispy Ambulance to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Yazoo,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Letta Mbulu,
The Walker Brothers,
The Count Five,
John Coltrane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Yellowson,
The Five Americans,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
La Düsseldorf,
Fugazi,
Soft Cell,
The Slackers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grauzone,
X-101,
Gang Starr,
The Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
MDC,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Y Pants,
The Mojo Men,
Hashim,
Lakeside,
Joyce Sims,
Alphaville,
Faraquet,
The Wake,
Marc Almond,
Circle Jerks,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tim Buckley,
The Pop Group,
Lee Hazlewood,
Moby Grape,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Finger,
The Martian,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Iggy Pop,
Sandy B,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Toni Rubio,
Deepchord,
Wings,
Soul II Soul,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.