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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Donny Hathaway to the electroclash 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Janne Schatter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Chris Corsano,
ABBA,
Soul II Soul,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
cv313,
The American Breed,
Soul Sonic Force,
One Last Wish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Chris & Cosey,
Derrick Morgan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Womack,
The Pretty Things,
Supertramp,
Roxy Music,
Tom Boy,
Slick Rick,
Harmonia,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Masters at Work,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tres Demented,
Mr. Review,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Inner City,
Alice Coltrane,
The Techniques,
Kayak,
Gil Scott Heron,
New York Dolls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Audionom,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lucky Dragons,
Dave Gahan,
Wire,
Marcia Griffiths,
Duran Duran,
Anthony Braxton,
Cecil Taylor,
The Star Department,
Robert Görl,
CMW,
Rekid,
Ultra Naté,
Desert Stars,
Yusef Lateef,
Spandau Ballet,
The Searchers,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.