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 Serbia and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Knickerbockers to the techno 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
Altered Images,
Rufus Thomas,
Sällskapet,
Albert Ayler,
Mark Hollis,
Index,
The Walker Brothers,
Tim Buckley,
The Fall,
Bad Manners,
The Mojo Men,
World's Most,
Basic Channel,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
UT,
48th St. Collective,
Parry Music,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Massinfluence,
ABC,
Silicon Teens,
Lalann,
Idris Muhammad,
Eurythmics,
Tears for Fears,
Theoretical Girls,
Pussy Galore,
Nico,
Livin' Joy,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Outsiders,
The Birthday Party,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marine Girls,
Arcadia,
Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Shuggie Otis,
The Electric Prunes,
Surgeon,
Amon Düül II,
Ten City,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jacques Brel,
Wasted Youth,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Zeros,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
Blake Baxter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marc Almond,
Anthony Braxton,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.