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 Uzbekistan and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Vogues to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
The Star Department,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wally Richardson,
Toni Rubio,
Eric Dolphy,
The Toasters,
The Misunderstood,
Inner City,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Loose Ends,
Erasure,
Sixth Finger,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radio Birdman,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rakim,
Barry Ungar,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fugazi,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Motorama,
Mission of Burma,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ituana,
Gabor Szabo,
Skarface,
Smog,
Jeff Mills,
Quadrant,
The Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
Suburban Knight,
Harpers Bizarre,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blancmange,
Junior Murvin,
The Zeros,
La Düsseldorf,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Technova,
Donny Hathaway,
Davy DMX,
John Coltrane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Pus,
Interpol,
Severed Heads,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Janne Schatter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sound Behaviour,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.