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 Peru and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin 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 The Move to the jazz 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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Anthony Braxton,
Little Man,
The Toasters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Spandau Ballet,
10cc,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Kinks,
The Sonics,
Oblivians,
Donny Hathaway,
Michelle Simonal,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Associates,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tommy Roe,
John Coltrane,
Qualms,
Camouflage,
Lou Reed,
The Smoke,
Aswad,
Donald Byrd,
Lightning Bolt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Main Source,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eli Mardock,
Average White Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rotary Connection,
Das Ding,
Jandek,
Ice-T,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minutemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Traffic Nightmare,
One Last Wish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bootsy Collins,
Magazine,
Ludus,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mark Hollis,
Accadde A,
Wolf Eyes,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül,
Man Parrish,
The Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
the Association,
Pere Ubu,
The Young Rascals,
China Crisis,
Dennis Brown,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.