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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Derrick May to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Basic Channel,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sarah Menescal,
The Raincoats,
Ultra Naté,
Yaz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sällskapet,
Crime,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Martian,
Quadrant,
Black Flag,
Loose Ends,
Matthew Bourne,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Aswad,
MC5,
Delta 5,
FM Einheit,
Gang Gang Dance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Vladislav Delay,
Ice-T,
Morten Harket,
Erykah Badu,
the Fania All-Stars,
Easy Going,
The Last Poets,
Piero Umiliani,
Malaria!,
The J.B.'s,
Tres Demented,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Youth Brigade,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Essential Logic,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alice Coltrane,
In Retrospect,
Jeff Mills,
Procol Harum,
Rekid,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kenny Larkin,
Kaleidoscope,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Silicon Teens,
Q65,
David McCallum,
Black Sheep,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rotary Connection,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.