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 Georgia and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Saccharine Trust to the rock 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 Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mantronix,
Youth Brigade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fire Engines,
The Residents,
Khruangbin,
The Golliwogs,
The Kinks,
Blancmange,
Danielle Patucci,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Star Department,
Moss Icon,
Godley & Creme,
Freddie Wadling,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deepchord,
The Slits,
Darondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ituana,
The Cure,
Lebanon Hanover,
Graham Central Station,
Ronan,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Birthday Party,
The Tremeloes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers,
Clear Light,
Hoover,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bob Dylan,
Section 25,
L. Decosne,
Howard Jones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Five Americans,
Negative Approach,
Bush Tetras,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Harpers Bizarre,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stiv Bators,
Television Personalities,
New Age Steppers,
Hasil Adkins,
the Bar-Kays,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.