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 Namibia and from Halifax.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron 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 Gong to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet 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?
Derrick May,
Monolake,
Massinfluence,
Oneida,
Girls At Our Best!,
DJ Sneak,
Shoche,
The Real Kids,
Minnie Riperton,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cheater Slicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flash Fearless,
Icehouse,
Heaven 17,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lindisfarne,
Darondo,
Interpol,
Bob Dylan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Toasters,
The Divine Comedy,
Flamin' Groovies,
China Crisis,
Gang of Four,
Nirvana,
The Zeros,
The Gladiators,
Peter & Gordon,
A Certain Ratio,
The Detroit Cobras,
Half Japanese,
Tom Boy,
Lou Christie,
Iggy Pop,
Kerrie Biddell,
Idris Muhammad,
Rod Modell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lungfish,
Roxy Music,
The Martian,
The Evens,
This Heat,
L. Decosne,
Carl Craig,
One Last Wish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Absolute Body Control,
Swans,
Underground Resistance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Soul II Soul,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.