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 Mali and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Lou Reed 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 Accadde A to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Magazine,
Skriet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sandy B,
Easy Going,
Urselle,
E-Dancer,
Chris Corsano,
Kas Product,
Altered Images,
Ten City,
Scientists,
Reuben Wilson,
Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
The Index,
Dual Sessions,
Sun City Girls,
Soft Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Stetsasonic,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cecil Taylor,
Maurizio,
the Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camouflage,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
Grauzone,
Fat Boys,
The Evens,
the Germs,
Joey Negro,
Desert Stars,
the Normal,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
John Lydon,
The Skatalites,
L. Decosne,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick Morgan,
LL Cool J,
Y Pants,
Dead Boys,
Max Romeo,
New Age Steppers,
AZ,
Brothers Johnson,
Subhumans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Severed Heads,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quadrant,
Robert Hood,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.