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 Bahrain and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Minny Pops to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Agitation Free,
World's Most,
Aaron Thompson,
Godley & Creme,
Ten City,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Evens,
Deadbeat,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Robert Wyatt,
Gong,
The Fugs,
X-102,
The Saints,
Lindisfarne,
Howard Jones,
Pierre Henry,
The Kinks,
Max Romeo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fluxion,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Quadrant,
The Moody Blues,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sparks,
Vladislav Delay,
Laurel Aitken,
The Real Kids,
Television,
Joe Finger,
Deepchord,
Big Daddy Kane,
Animal Collective,
Ronnie Foster,
Model 500,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aswad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Velvet Underground,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vainqueur,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Five Americans,
Reagan Youth,
Qualms,
Roger Hodgson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Echospace,
Cameo,
Public Enemy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grey Daturas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.