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 Nigeria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Nile Rodgers 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 The Moleskins to the dance 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Names,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
Massinfluence,
Angry Samoans,
Barrington Levy,
Mandrill,
10cc,
Delta 5,
Siglo XX,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
K-Klass,
Sonny Sharrock,
ABC,
Bootsy Collins,
The Moleskins,
Chrome,
Scott Walker,
Black Sheep,
Index,
Khruangbin,
Cal Tjader,
Cluster,
Adolescents,
The Residents,
Isaac Hayes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harmonia,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Velvet Underground,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
Don Cherry,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
Niagra,
Magma,
Pole,
Procol Harum,
The Fall,
Zapp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Parry Music,
The Barracudas,
Severed Heads,
Eurythmics,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Howard Jones,
Eli Mardock,
DJ Sneak,
The Seeds,
Echospace,
Schoolly D,
The Monochrome Set,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Idris Muhammad,
Hoover,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.