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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
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 oboe 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 Anakelly to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Matthew Halsall,
Mark Hollis,
Iggy Pop,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Colin Newman,
Icehouse,
Sun Ra,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Henry Cow,
Scan 7,
Eric Dolphy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Green,
Aloha Tigers,
Letta Mbulu,
The Human League,
Brass Construction,
Thompson Twins,
Blancmange,
The Skatalites,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joensuu 1685,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sparks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Intrusion,
Franke,
Kool Moe Dee,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tres Demented,
Reagan Youth,
Quando Quango,
Eden Ahbez,
Accadde A,
Nico,
Throbbing Gristle,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Fall,
James White and The Blacks,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
Scion,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Foxx,
Donny Hathaway,
Fatback Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Derrick Morgan,
Cecil Taylor,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Ornette Coleman,
Brand Nubian,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.