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 Sri Lanka and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Busters to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Lindisfarne,
The Fall,
A Certain Ratio,
T.S.O.L.,
Franke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arcadia,
June of 44,
The Five Americans,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radio Birdman,
The Modern Lovers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Country Teasers,
Stetsasonic,
The Cowsills,
Arthur Verocai,
Funkadelic,
Zero Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Pop Group,
Aaron Thompson,
Henry Cow,
Ice-T,
Silicon Teens,
Pierre Henry,
Camouflage,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
48th St. Collective,
The Doors,
Rod Modell,
Oneida,
The Young Rascals,
Harmonia,
Altered Images,
Television,
Accadde A,
These Immortal Souls,
Kerri Chandler,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
China Crisis,
Aswad,
Fad Gadget,
Agent Orange,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yellowson,
Niagra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joy Division,
The Last Poets,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Smoke,
The Evens,
Slave,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.