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 Israel and from Tehran.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Darondo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
David Axelrod,
Public Image Ltd.,
Max Romeo,
Rotary Connection,
Marvin Gaye,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sonic Youth,
Severed Heads,
Agent Orange,
Unwound,
La Düsseldorf,
Pulsallama,
The Velvet Underground,
Hot Snakes,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zero Boys,
The Vogues,
Cal Tjader,
Hardrive,
The Searchers,
Black Bananas,
Howard Jones,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Isaac Hayes,
James White and The Blacks,
Lyres,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Gladiators,
Bootsy Collins,
Scrapy,
Jeff Mills,
The Monochrome Set,
The Real Kids,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brand Nubian,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dennis Brown,
Skriet,
The Five Americans,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Amon Düül II,
The Buckinghams,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Associates,
The Fall,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ponytail,
Brick,
Minutemen,
Index,
Excepter,
Trumans Water,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.