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 Grenada and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the dance 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Anthony Braxton,
Warren Ellis,
The Misunderstood,
Whodini,
Alison Limerick,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Christie,
The Count Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Von Mondo,
Spoonie Gee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Y Pants,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scan 7,
The Wake,
Amazonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deakin,
Buzzcocks,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Finger,
Erasure,
Steve Hackett,
Unrelated Segments,
Rosa Yemen,
Radio Birdman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cybotron,
Slick Rick,
Ultravox,
Soulsonic Force,
The United States of America,
Angry Samoans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Sheep,
Accadde A,
The Divine Comedy,
John Coltrane,
Eric Dolphy,
The Remains,
The Mummies,
Camberwell Now,
The Fall,
Rakim,
Alton Ellis,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rapeman,
New York Dolls,
Soft Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Flipper,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pantaleimon,
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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.