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 Jamaica and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 chamberlin 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 Jerry's Kids to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Peter and Kerry,
Rapeman,
Pierre Henry,
Carl Craig,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Johnny Clarke,
Susan Cadogan,
Kenny Larkin,
Oneida,
The Gladiators,
Excepter,
Little Man,
The Techniques,
Radiohead,
Tubeway Army,
Bobbi Humphrey,
June Days,
Khruangbin,
T. Rex,
Robert Görl,
Todd Terry,
The Modern Lovers,
48th St. Collective,
Guru Guru,
The Shadows of Knight,
Michelle Simonal,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Organ,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
Arthur Verocai,
Piero Umiliani,
a-ha,
Toni Rubio,
Pole,
Motorama,
Talk Talk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lyres,
Glambeats Corp.,
Electric Prunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Barracudas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T.S.O.L.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Yazoo,
Chrome,
Soulsonic Force,
Marine Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Thompson Twins,
Procol Harum,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crash Course in Science,
Accadde A,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.