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 Mongolia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Y Pants to the rap 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
The Moleskins,
Banda Bassotti,
New Age Steppers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Q and Not U,
Graham Central Station,
Minutemen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blackbyrds,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arcadia,
Ronnie Foster,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Television,
Gerry Rafferty,
Glenn Branca,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gichy Dan,
Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crime,
The Smoke,
Amazonics,
The Gories,
JFA,
Audionom,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
MDC,
Rapeman,
L. Decosne,
Newcleus,
Japan,
Black Pus,
Cal Tjader,
Jimmy McGriff,
Frankie Knuckles,
This Heat,
Negative Approach,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sound,
The Black Dice,
Wally Richardson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobby Byrd,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Move,
The Fugs,
Camouflage,
Pussy Galore,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Association,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.