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 Lesotho and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Golliwogs to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Donald Byrd,
EPMD,
Bluetip,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Electric Prunes,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eric Dolphy,
Technova,
Crime,
Todd Rundgren,
Fatback Band,
Franke,
Pet Shop Boys,
Circle Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Urselle,
Ice-T,
The Saints,
Piero Umiliani,
Nation of Ulysses,
UT,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Shuggie Otis,
Shoche,
Yellowson,
Guru Guru,
The Litter,
Underground Resistance,
Aloha Tigers,
World's Most,
Cameo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
It's A Beautiful Day,
48th St. Collective,
The Barracudas,
Amon Düül II,
Fear,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Invisible,
Khruangbin,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jandek,
Roger Hodgson,
Electric Prunes,
B.T. Express,
The Index,
Arthur Verocai,
Mandrill,
kango's stein massive,
Quando Quango,
Absolute Body Control,
Joy Division,
Deepchord,
Maleditus Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
Procol Harum,
Aural Exciters,
The Monks,
Sugar Minott,
D'Angelo,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.