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 Canada and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Robert Palmer 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 Rekid to the dance 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Jeff Mills,
One Last Wish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nils Olav,
The Happenings,
The Gories,
Organ,
The Gladiators,
Deakin,
Tomorrow,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Cameo,
Sight & Sound,
Terry Callier,
the Swans,
Sex Pistols,
Amon Düül II,
Popol Vuh,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yazoo,
Fugazi,
The Barracudas,
Country Teasers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soulsonic Force,
Suicide,
Echospace,
The Techniques,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sound,
Urselle,
Oblivians,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
EPMD,
Mission of Burma,
The Fall,
The Detroit Cobras,
David McCallum,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Vogues,
Aaron Thompson,
Depeche Mode,
Scrapy,
Chris Corsano,
Matthew Bourne,
Skriet,
Amazonics,
Au Pairs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bauhaus,
The Blues Magoos,
Alison Limerick,
The Residents,
The Fortunes,
Metal Thangz,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The United States of America,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.