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 Niger and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Sam Rivers,
The Gladiators,
Y Pants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Soul II Soul,
Stetsasonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barclay James Harvest,
Swans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Babytalk,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ludus,
H. Thieme,
Infiniti,
The Kinks,
Duran Duran,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Unwound,
Angry Samoans,
Minor Threat,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kas Product,
Fear,
The Red Krayola,
Sun City Girls,
Agitation Free,
Kenny Larkin,
Gang Starr,
The Moody Blues,
Jeru the Damaja,
Outsiders,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
This Heat,
Lindisfarne,
Icehouse,
Moss Icon,
Slave,
Dawn Penn,
Oneida,
Buzzcocks,
cv313,
Altered Images,
X-101,
Sparks,
New Age Steppers,
Idris Muhammad,
Rufus Thomas,
The Searchers,
The Residents,
Marc Almond,
Crispy Ambulance,
8 Eyed Spy,
Siglo XX,
The Wake,
Mad Mike,
Black Pus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.