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 Micronesia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Supertramp to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Cybotron,
Make Up,
Kool Moe Dee,
Maurizio,
Roxette,
The Human League,
the Association,
T.S.O.L.,
Johnny Clarke,
One Last Wish,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronan,
Tomorrow,
Tears for Fears,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Little Man,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
L. Decosne,
Brass Construction,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Flag,
Duran Duran,
E-Dancer,
Tres Demented,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Graham Central Station,
Massinfluence,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Flesh Eaters,
Visage,
The Moody Blues,
Altered Images,
Faraquet,
The Gories,
The Gun Club,
Pussy Galore,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Thee Headcoats,
The Names,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joy Division,
Gabor Szabo,
the Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Schoolly D,
KRS-One,
Circle Jerks,
Pagans,
The Move,
The Mighty Diamonds,
UT,
The Doors,
Derrick Morgan,
Das Ding,
Fatback Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.