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 Uruguay and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs 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?
Thee Headcoats,
Blancmange,
Ossler,
Black Bananas,
The Barracudas,
Sun City Girls,
Pussy Galore,
Neil Young,
H. Thieme,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dave Gahan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Aural Exciters,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eurythmics,
Section 25,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gories,
Chris & Cosey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Adolescents,
Lower 48,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stereo Dub,
Ludus,
Magma,
Agent Orange,
Pharoah Sanders,
Vainqueur,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joensuu 1685,
The Human League,
Basic Channel,
The Invisible,
The Wake,
UT,
Barrington Levy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Altered Images,
Infiniti,
Crispy Ambulance,
Little Man,
Essential Logic,
Newcleus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Leaves,
The Fortunes,
The Fire Engines,
KRS-One,
Sparks,
MDC,
L. Decosne,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.