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 Argentina and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Michael McDonald 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 Erasure to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Derrick May,
Quadrant,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lower 48,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Agitation Free,
Dark Day,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grauzone,
OOIOO,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stetsasonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Avey Tare,
Excepter,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Mummies,
Minny Pops,
Soul II Soul,
cv313,
The Birthday Party,
The Monks,
The Tremeloes,
E-Dancer,
Swell Maps,
Clear Light,
Ice-T,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Von Mondo,
Shoche,
Black Bananas,
F. McDonald,
Parry Music,
World's Most,
Mandrill,
Arthur Verocai,
Liliput,
New Age Steppers,
Bronski Beat,
The Happenings,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hot Snakes,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alison Limerick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nirvana,
Masters at Work,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mantronix,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
Funky Four + One,
Erykah Badu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.