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 Barbados and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Radiopuhelimet,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amon Düül II,
Scott Walker,
Wally Richardson,
The Fire Engines,
Sun City Girls,
Morten Harket,
Banda Bassotti,
Television Personalities,
Symarip,
The Saints,
Gregory Isaacs,
Harpers Bizarre,
EPMD,
Harry Pussy,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
Q65,
Sandy B,
Josef K,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Royal Trux,
Wolf Eyes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sällskapet,
Magma,
Isaac Hayes,
Brothers Johnson,
The Zeros,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Real Kids,
Procol Harum,
KRS-One,
Connie Case,
Skaos,
Arcadia,
John Coltrane,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Janne Schatter,
The Dirtbombs,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobby Byrd,
Skarface,
David Bowie,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
Blake Baxter,
Faust,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.