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 Comoros and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 Sparks to the electroclash 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Invisible,
Second Layer,
The Sonics,
Anthony Braxton,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
Ludus,
Grauzone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bad Manners,
UT,
One Last Wish,
Con Funk Shun,
AZ,
kango's stein massive,
John Foxx,
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Kenny Larkin,
Kerri Chandler,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tomorrow,
Drexciya,
Nico,
Dark Day,
Average White Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Liliput,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rufus Thomas,
The Associates,
B.T. Express,
Juan Atkins,
Technova,
Talk Talk,
Bill Wells,
Anakelly,
Toni Rubio,
Man Eating Sloth,
Make Up,
Mantronix,
Man Parrish,
Infiniti,
Alton Ellis,
Kurtis Blow,
The Motions,
The Happenings,
Scientists,
Tropical Tobacco,
Oneida,
U.S. Maple,
Shoche,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.