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 Philippines and from Mexico City.
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 Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Eurythmics to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Model 500,
Audionom,
The Motions,
The J.B.'s,
The Skatalites,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Moss Icon,
The Blackbyrds,
Danielle Patucci,
The Happenings,
The Sonics,
Jacques Brel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Wells,
Robert Wyatt,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Bourne,
Vainqueur,
Joy Division,
Pole,
Rekid,
Alphaville,
Das Ding,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Gabor Szabo,
Thee Headcoats,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Chrome,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultravox,
Sight & Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Isaac Hayes,
Drexciya,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
Jeff Mills,
Archie Shepp,
Clear Light,
Reuben Wilson,
X-101,
Hasil Adkins,
Rakim,
Swell Maps,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Bananas,
Max Romeo,
Pere Ubu,
One Last Wish,
Crooked Eye,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.