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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 arpeggiator 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ohio Players,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Robert Görl,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ornette Coleman,
Sugar Minott,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Urselle,
Groovy Waters,
Graham Central Station,
Bill Wells,
X-102,
Reagan Youth,
Tomorrow,
Marvin Gaye,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lucky Dragons,
This Heat,
Fugazi,
Cecil Taylor,
The Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Maleditus Sound,
Ken Boothe,
R.M.O.,
Flipper,
Theoretical Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Sonics,
Slick Rick,
Faust,
Sonic Youth,
Talk Talk,
the Sonics,
The Mojo Men,
The Mummies,
the Bar-Kays,
The Toasters,
The Gap Band,
The Walker Brothers,
The Associates,
KRS-One,
L. Decosne,
The Leaves,
The Fugs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aswad,
Von Mondo,
Godley & Creme,
Jeff Lynne,
June Days,
Jerry's Kids,
Duran Duran,
Terrestrial Tones,
Loose Ends,
Charles Mingus,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.