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 Spain and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 Subhumans to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Anthony Braxton,
Lebanon Hanover,
Niagra,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Tremeloes,
The Associates,
Anakelly,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Public Image Ltd.,
48th St. Collective,
Bauhaus,
ABBA,
Wolf Eyes,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
The Gories,
Ponytail,
Bang On A Can,
Arcadia,
The Neon Judgement,
John Cale,
Bush Tetras,
The Mojo Men,
Ituana,
Das Ding,
Index,
CMW,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deadbeat,
Cheater Slicks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Bowie,
Gang Starr,
Blake Baxter,
Sällskapet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Normal,
Aaron Thompson,
Lower 48,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dave Gahan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Shoche,
The Litter,
The Grass Roots,
Thee Headcoats,
Hot Snakes,
Dawn Penn,
Suicide,
Wire,
The Pop Group,
Kurtis Blow,
Ultra Naté,
Deepchord,
Tubeway Army,
Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.