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 Zambia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Holger Czukay 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pole,
Funky Four + One,
Fatback Band,
L. Decosne,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harpers Bizarre,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smoke,
The Beau Brummels,
Soul II Soul,
ABBA,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jawbox,
Lungfish,
Siglo XX,
Ice-T,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker,
Chrome,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deakin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alphaville,
The Sonics,
the Slits,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
Radiohead,
Sun City Girls,
Clear Light,
Sex Pistols,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Con Funk Shun,
Supertramp,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liliput,
The Seeds,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter and Kerry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gregory Isaacs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Second Layer,
Bobby Byrd,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scan 7,
Faust,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Shoche,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lindisfarne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Wyatt,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.