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 Glasgow.
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 Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Basic Channel to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
The Cowsills,
Lou Christie,
David McCallum,
Shoche,
Pussy Galore,
Television Personalities,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
Ituana,
Radiohead,
Sight & Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
FM Einheit,
The Names,
Todd Terry,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donny Hathaway,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Popol Vuh,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anthony Braxton,
Sixth Finger,
Grey Daturas,
Leonard Cohen,
Sound Behaviour,
Sällskapet,
Boredoms,
Brothers Johnson,
The Neon Judgement,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Livin' Joy,
Public Enemy,
The Black Dice,
Black Pus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dual Sessions,
Jeff Mills,
Wasted Youth,
The Tremeloes,
Michelle Simonal,
Gabor Szabo,
Terry Callier,
Agent Orange,
Don Cherry,
the Sonics,
Kayak,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Prince Buster,
The Music Machine,
World's Most,
Delon & Dalcan,
Davy DMX,
Hoover,
The Grass Roots,
Skriet,
Banda Bassotti,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.