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 Luxembourg and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the disco 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Motions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Thompson Twins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Faust,
Aloha Tigers,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Infiniti,
Talk Talk,
ABBA,
Dave Gahan,
The Zeros,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flipper,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suicide,
Oblivians,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The United States of America,
Pantytec,
Slave,
David Bowie,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mojo Men,
Chrome,
Can,
The Monks,
Jeff Mills,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Chris & Cosey,
Jawbox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cymande,
the Association,
Ludus,
Spoonie Gee,
Ituana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grauzone,
Rites of Spring,
Cybotron,
Eve St. Jones,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Duran Duran,
Graham Central Station,
Marshall Jefferson,
Quantec,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Offenders,
The Trojans,
Colin Newman,
The Litter,
The New Christs,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Residents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.