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 Nigeria and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Icehouse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Leonard Cohen,
Television Personalities,
The Dirtbombs,
Hoover,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anakelly,
Sällskapet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fortunes,
Harry Pussy,
Can,
Brick,
Suburban Knight,
John Cale,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lungfish,
Letta Mbulu,
Carl Craig,
Pulsallama,
Little Man,
The Mummies,
Marc Almond,
Mo-Dettes,
Bill Near,
The Real Kids,
Von Mondo,
Quantec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jacob Miller,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Whodini,
Skriet,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
New Order,
Alphaville,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Desert Stars,
Altered Images,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Moody Blues,
Marshall Jefferson,
Al Stewart,
The Sound,
Junior Murvin,
Lee Hazlewood,
The United States of America,
Q and Not U,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Talk Talk,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Associates,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.