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 Cape Verde and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Wasted Youth to the rock 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tears for Fears,
The Golliwogs,
Unwound,
Joey Negro,
The Pop Group,
MC5,
Little Man,
Dorothy Ashby,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Hill,
Brick,
Blake Baxter,
New Age Steppers,
Symarip,
The Smiths,
X-Ray Spex,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Dead Boys,
Guru Guru,
The Gun Club,
Yaz,
The Doors,
Mark Hollis,
Aswad,
Unrelated Segments,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Lydon,
The Human League,
Nirvana,
The Techniques,
Marine Girls,
Zero Boys,
Junior Murvin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ralphi Rosario,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grauzone,
Johnny Clarke,
Negative Approach,
La Düsseldorf,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visage,
The Durutti Column,
Tommy Roe,
Ronan,
Easy Going,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
Michelle Simonal,
Y Pants,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
Sixth Finger,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.