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 Burkina and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Main Source to the dance 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Lyres,
Unrelated Segments,
Sound Behaviour,
Terrestrial Tones,
Funky Four + One,
MC5,
Accadde A,
Robert Hood,
Tim Buckley,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ossler,
Kool Moe Dee,
Urselle,
The Raincoats,
Kas Product,
Jacques Brel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fuzztones,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kenny Larkin,
Reuben Wilson,
Talk Talk,
Hasil Adkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sugar Minott,
Mr. Review,
The Moody Blues,
Tomorrow,
Cameo,
Swans,
Television,
The Residents,
E-Dancer,
Boz Scaggs,
DNA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeff Mills,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alphaville,
Cluster,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Agitation Free,
Slick Rick,
The Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick May,
Rakim,
The Associates,
The Searchers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warsaw,
MDC,
CMW,
The Busters,
Rod Modell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.