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 Tunisia and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Michael McDonald 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 Lalo Schifrin to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Cybotron,
Minutemen,
The Names,
Pagans,
Jerry's Kids,
Darondo,
Black Sheep,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare,
Joy Division,
Stereo Dub,
The Seeds,
Nas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skaos,
The Doobie Brothers,
Slick Rick,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fire Engines,
Deadbeat,
Suburban Knight,
Camberwell Now,
Pere Ubu,
Make Up,
Kurtis Blow,
The Neon Judgement,
KRS-One,
The Searchers,
Television Personalities,
Crooked Eye,
Roxy Music,
Bill Near,
Dark Day,
Crispy Ambulance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Cell,
F. McDonald,
Scrapy,
Altered Images,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Schoolly D,
Lower 48,
Marine Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
Janne Schatter,
Cal Tjader,
The Fortunes,
The Raincoats,
Tom Boy,
The American Breed,
The Dirtbombs,
Moby Grape,
June Days,
Whodini,
Oblivians,
Absolute Body Control,
Lalo Schifrin,
Todd Terry,
Harmonia,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.