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 Mauritania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the rock 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agent Orange,
Moby Grape,
Deakin,
Prince Buster,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Warren Ellis,
Simply Red,
Maurizio,
Joy Division,
the Soft Cell,
Lungfish,
Dave Gahan,
Scott Walker,
Gabor Szabo,
DJ Style,
La Düsseldorf,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Minnie Riperton,
Unwound,
The Walker Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Coltrane,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
D'Angelo,
The Misunderstood,
Archie Shepp,
Juan Atkins,
Bill Wells,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Skatalites,
Marvin Gaye,
Boogie Down Productions,
Animal Collective,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Sherman,
Youth Brigade,
DNA,
Maleditus Sound,
Terrestrial Tones,
Newcleus,
Procol Harum,
The Slits,
Swell Maps,
The Dead C,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Raincoats,
the Sonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pharoah Sanders,
Oblivians,
Fluxion,
The Move,
Minny Pops,
Hoover,
John Foxx,
Stiv Bators,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scientists,
Graham Central Station,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.