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 China and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Sound Behaviour to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick 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?
Thee Headcoats,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Livin' Joy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
The United States of America,
Amon Düül,
Supertramp,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stetsasonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marine Girls,
The Victims,
The Monks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lower 48,
Sam Rivers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Barracudas,
Infiniti,
Alison Limerick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Slits,
Brand Nubian,
Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Golliwogs,
Scientists,
Babytalk,
The Gories,
Sister Nancy,
The Evens,
Youth Brigade,
Country Teasers,
The J.B.'s,
Section 25,
Talk Talk,
Boredoms,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
Johnny Clarke,
Main Source,
The Zeros,
Althea and Donna,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Womack,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Fraelich,
Gabor Szabo,
Monolake,
The Tremeloes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Cale,
Suicide,
The Dirtbombs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.