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 South Sudan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
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 synthesizer 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 Siglo XX to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
the Sonics,
X-102,
Rotary Connection,
Royal Trux,
the Bar-Kays,
Jacob Miller,
Oblivians,
Deepchord,
Basic Channel,
Yazoo,
Howard Jones,
The Fall,
Wings,
Godley & Creme,
Loose Ends,
Bill Near,
Inner City,
Newcleus,
Joey Negro,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Remains,
Jeru the Damaja,
Arthur Verocai,
Liliput,
Adolescents,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Dolphy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bluetip,
Jandek,
Maurizio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Walker Brothers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Raincoats,
Gong,
The Happenings,
The Motions,
Visage,
Scrapy,
Ludus,
48th St. Collective,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
A Certain Ratio,
Freddie Wadling,
Scan 7,
Delta 5,
Pantaleimon,
Aloha Tigers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Intrusion,
The Zeros,
Hoover,
The Moody Blues,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.