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 Estonia and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Bauhaus to the techno 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
AZ,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Davy DMX,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rapeman,
The Standells,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Magazine,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Remains,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
a-ha,
Bronski Beat,
Flipper,
The Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Lyres,
Grandmaster Flash,
Babytalk,
Terry Callier,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
The Wake,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gabor Szabo,
Marmalade,
Jeff Mills,
The Trojans,
EPMD,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom,
Mr. Review,
Buzzcocks,
Lindisfarne,
Scan 7,
Ten City,
The Misunderstood,
Dave Gahan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Interpol,
Smog,
Gang of Four,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers,
Morten Harket,
Colin Newman,
Q and Not U,
Boogie Down Productions,
Howard Jones,
the Sonics,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.