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 Belgium and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Marcia Griffiths to the grime 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Urselle,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Glenn Branca,
Alton Ellis,
The Seeds,
ABC,
JFA,
Y Pants,
The Last Poets,
Tubeway Army,
Black Bananas,
Anthony Braxton,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Idris Muhammad,
Silicon Teens,
CMW,
Panda Bear,
Roxy Music,
Roy Ayers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Drexciya,
Popol Vuh,
Tommy Roe,
The Gories,
The Selecter,
John Lydon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Young Marble Giants,
June Days,
Flamin' Groovies,
James White and The Blacks,
Mission of Burma,
Con Funk Shun,
Whodini,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
The Cowsills,
Sight & Sound,
Derrick May,
Reuben Wilson,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Cure,
Godley & Creme,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cheater Slicks,
Marine Girls,
PIL,
The Misunderstood,
Letta Mbulu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Certain Ratio,
The Velvet Underground,
Dave Gahan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ten City,
Animal Collective,
Monolake,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.