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 Liechtenstein and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Siglo XX to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
One Last Wish,
D'Angelo,
The Evens,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cymande,
Sonic Youth,
The Black Dice,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sarah Menescal,
Model 500,
Black Pus,
Second Layer,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dirtbombs,
Subhumans,
Marvin Gaye,
Harmonia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Radiopuhelimet,
Blossom Toes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The J.B.'s,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slackers,
Interpol,
The Fortunes,
Nirvana,
Sparks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Soft Cell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sight & Sound,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joe Smooth,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kurtis Blow,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Christie,
The Selecter,
the Sonics,
The Tremeloes,
The Gories,
Circle Jerks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Mills,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Toni Rubio,
Duran Duran,
Television Personalities,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kenny Larkin,
Stockholm Monsters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.