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 Malta and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Janne Schatter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joey Negro,
Wasted Youth,
The Angels of Light,
Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
David Bowie,
Young Marble Giants,
Scott Walker,
Accadde A,
Saccharine Trust,
Jandek,
Barrington Levy,
Icehouse,
X-Ray Spex,
Jerry's Kids,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Slits,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Green,
Marvin Gaye,
The J.B.'s,
Frankie Knuckles,
OOIOO,
Kas Product,
The Smiths,
Sixth Finger,
Guru Guru,
Ituana,
Todd Terry,
the Slits,
Yusef Lateef,
Patti Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Los Fastidios,
Moby Grape,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Duran Duran,
Brand Nubian,
Black Moon,
Pulsallama,
Andrew Hill,
The New Christs,
The Cowsills,
Severed Heads,
Newcleus,
Underground Resistance,
This Heat,
EPMD,
Jawbox,
CMW,
KRS-One,
Average White Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Human League,
Joy Division,
Lalann,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funky Four + One,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.