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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marine Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
K-Klass,
Sarah Menescal,
Rekid,
Colin Newman,
Josef K,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Reed,
Bill Near,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Smog,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Offenders,
L. Decosne,
Janne Schatter,
The Dave Clark Five,
DNA,
Mandrill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tubeway Army,
Brothers Johnson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Basic Channel,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Sonics,
Kaleidoscope,
Reuben Wilson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Freddie Wadling,
Boogie Down Productions,
Los Fastidios,
The Happenings,
The Associates,
Sister Nancy,
The Smoke,
Make Up,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Durutti Column,
New Order,
Jandek,
Todd Rundgren,
Scan 7,
Liliput,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Smiths,
Excepter,
Dennis Brown,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Foxx,
The Toasters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Normal,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.