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 Kuwait and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultimate Spinach to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Massinfluence,
The Seeds,
Marshall Jefferson,
AZ,
Altered Images,
Marcia Griffiths,
Godley & Creme,
Danielle Patucci,
Siglo XX,
The Five Americans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Funky Four + One,
Whodini,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Khruangbin,
Gang Green,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visage,
Quantec,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joe Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rites of Spring,
Second Layer,
DJ Style,
Crash Course in Science,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Skaos,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Todd Terry,
Black Moon,
10cc,
Sex Pistols,
Das Ding,
MDC,
The Angels of Light,
Masters at Work,
U.S. Maple,
The Move,
The Evens,
Heaven 17,
The Knickerbockers,
The Star Department,
Quadrant,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
R.M.O.,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pagans,
The Tremeloes,
Swell Maps,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.