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 Moldova and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Roger Hodgson,
Neil Young,
Japan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Make Up,
Heaven 17,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Newcleus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nico,
Joe Finger,
Rapeman,
Jawbox,
Rod Modell,
Agent Orange,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rotary Connection,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mojo Men,
Cybotron,
Isaac Hayes,
Aloha Tigers,
Ohio Players,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kaleidoscope,
Unrelated Segments,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Section 25,
Aaron Thompson,
The Divine Comedy,
Moebius,
One Last Wish,
Soulsonic Force,
The Litter,
the Normal,
June Days,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Magma,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Toasters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rhythm & Sound,
10cc,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Technova,
Maleditus Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Jandek,
Sixth Finger,
World's Most,
The Names,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delta 5,
The Techniques,
Clear Light,
Niagra,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.