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 Malaysia and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Cosmic Jokers to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Anthony Braxton,
the Swans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
The Kinks,
The Angels of Light,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
Brothers Johnson,
Underground Resistance,
Flipper,
Eric Copeland,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television Personalities,
Tears for Fears,
Bootsy Collins,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Spoonie Gee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grey Daturas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hardrive,
Kurtis Blow,
Electric Prunes,
Massinfluence,
These Immortal Souls,
Soulsonic Force,
The Misunderstood,
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Seeds,
Reuben Wilson,
Idris Muhammad,
CMW,
The Selecter,
The Gories,
Angry Samoans,
The Associates,
Rod Modell,
The Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Whodini,
New York Dolls,
Freddie Wadling,
Symarip,
Eddi Front,
Sight & Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alison Limerick,
the Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David Bowie,
T. Rex,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.