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 Egypt and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Q65 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Boz Scaggs,
Jawbox,
James White and The Blacks,
Derrick Morgan,
Junior Murvin,
Eurythmics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nik Kershaw,
Tim Buckley,
Drexciya,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quantec,
Ronnie Foster,
Livin' Joy,
Soulsonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Tremeloes,
Lower 48,
Thee Headcoats,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Interpol,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Blues Magoos,
Mo-Dettes,
Mad Mike,
Avey Tare,
Todd Rundgren,
Wolf Eyes,
Charles Mingus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Visage,
Make Up,
Crispy Ambulance,
Loose Ends,
The Golliwogs,
Ohio Players,
Patti Smith,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Boredoms,
Moebius,
Robert Hood,
Cheater Slicks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.