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 Taiwan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Circle Jerks 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nirvana,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jawbox,
Jesper Dahlback,
Al Stewart,
Sister Nancy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Derrick May,
Hashim,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Oneida,
R.M.O.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Youth Brigade,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jandek,
New Order,
Little Man,
Eden Ahbez,
Robert Görl,
Pere Ubu,
Smog,
Pierre Henry,
Althea and Donna,
John Holt,
Half Japanese,
Bad Manners,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Supertramp,
Banda Bassotti,
The Real Kids,
These Immortal Souls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kevin Saunderson,
AZ,
Moss Icon,
Dead Boys,
Joe Smooth,
JFA,
The Litter,
Rosa Yemen,
Spandau Ballet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hardrive,
Parry Music,
Eli Mardock,
Minnie Riperton,
Sixth Finger,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marc Almond,
Juan Atkins,
the Bar-Kays,
Dorothy Ashby,
Masters at Work,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.