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 Mexico and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Kas Product,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Offenders,
Little Man,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Massinfluence,
Skarface,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cure,
Black Sheep,
Glambeats Corp.,
Goldenarms,
The Litter,
Quadrant,
Trumans Water,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Busters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yusef Lateef,
These Immortal Souls,
Crispian St. Peters,
Groovy Waters,
The Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Bronski Beat,
Matthew Halsall,
Vladislav Delay,
Magma,
Television,
T.S.O.L.,
Heaven 17,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
In Retrospect,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
a-ha,
Ossler,
Tubeway Army,
The Real Kids,
EPMD,
The Beau Brummels,
The Techniques,
Joy Division,
Underground Resistance,
The Mojo Men,
AZ,
Danielle Patucci,
Dark Day,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Associates,
Fatback Band,
Visage,
Derrick May,
Adolescents,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
Agent Orange,
Marc Almond,
R.M.O.,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.