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 Greece and from New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Ossler to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pussy Galore,
JFA,
Pantytec,
Neil Young,
Funky Four + One,
David Axelrod,
Nils Olav,
Suicide,
Harmonia,
Bang On A Can,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobby Sherman,
Section 25,
Scott Walker,
ABBA,
The Cure,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kayak,
Model 500,
Michelle Simonal,
Livin' Joy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bauhaus,
Al Stewart,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Trojans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Mills,
Sixth Finger,
Don Cherry,
Lucky Dragons,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kevin Saunderson,
Motorama,
Morten Harket,
Maleditus Sound,
Qualms,
Swell Maps,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Busters,
Magma,
Mo-Dettes,
Howard Jones,
The Alarm Clocks,
Liliput,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Schoolly D,
Skriet,
The Slits,
Unrelated Segments,
Wolf Eyes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Fraelich,
Quadrant,
Technova,
Roxette,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.