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 Finland and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Saccharine Trust to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joensuu 1685,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Toasters,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang of Four,
Symarip,
The United States of America,
Jacob Miller,
Fat Boys,
Supertramp,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Barry Ungar,
Animal Collective,
Arab on Radar,
Smog,
Junior Murvin,
Franke,
The Litter,
Soulsonic Force,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ornette Coleman,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Althea and Donna,
Scrapy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
EPMD,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Average White Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Tres Demented,
the Slits,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Graham Central Station,
The Young Rascals,
The Gories,
Stereo Dub,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sugar Minott,
Jawbox,
Gang Gang Dance,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rosa Yemen,
Todd Terry,
Harry Pussy,
Sexual Harrassment,
China Crisis,
PIL,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
Television,
Young Marble Giants,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.