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 Chad and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mad Mike to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cowsills,
Barbara Tucker,
the Sonics,
Bootsy Collins,
Cybotron,
Slave,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Seeds,
Y Pants,
Joy Division,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Circle Jerks,
Pantaleimon,
Chris Corsano,
Minutemen,
Aloha Tigers,
The Litter,
Eli Mardock,
Lightning Bolt,
The Busters,
Das Ding,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Slackers,
Swans,
Cecil Taylor,
Crime,
Yellowson,
Bill Near,
The Happenings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Cymande,
Pussy Galore,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soul II Soul,
Harmonia,
Visage,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Malaria!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Skarface,
Hardrive,
Outsiders,
Adolescents,
Skaos,
Bill Wells,
Brand Nubian,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roxette,
A Certain Ratio,
The Birthday Party,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dirtbombs,
The Stooges,
The United States of America,
the Human League,
Moebius,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.