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 Mauritius and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Malaria! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Spoonie Gee,
Sarah Menescal,
The Electric Prunes,
Masters at Work,
Henry Cow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Babytalk,
John Cale,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Althea and Donna,
Fugazi,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Lynne,
Oblivians,
Howard Jones,
Das Ding,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-102,
Graham Central Station,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Infiniti,
Eli Mardock,
Nico,
Michelle Simonal,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Evens,
Japan,
Agitation Free,
Talk Talk,
Gichy Dan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moody Blues,
The Motions,
Colin Newman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Suicide,
Bobby Byrd,
Pagans,
Soft Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Suburban Knight,
Second Layer,
Siglo XX,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-Ray Spex,
Aaron Thompson,
Kenny Larkin,
the Association,
Procol Harum,
Eric Dolphy,
John Foxx,
Basic Channel,
Fad Gadget,
The Toasters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.