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 France and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Aural Exciters to the punk 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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Ornette Coleman,
Fugazi,
Roy Ayers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
L. Decosne,
Public Enemy,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
the Sonics,
Marmalade,
The Knickerbockers,
Inner City,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rufus Thomas,
New Age Steppers,
Jacob Miller,
cv313,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Tremeloes,
The Invisible,
James White and The Blacks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joe Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Eli Mardock,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris Corsano,
David Bowie,
Nils Olav,
Junior Murvin,
Al Stewart,
Scrapy,
Andrew Hill,
Youth Brigade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxy Music,
Howard Jones,
ABC,
Gabor Szabo,
Grauzone,
Jeru the Damaja,
Amon Düül II,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rekid,
Toni Rubio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Laurel Aitken,
Skriet,
Mark Hollis,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.