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 Iceland and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eric B and Rakim 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Stooges,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Cymande,
Zapp,
Model 500,
New Order,
Funky Four + One,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare,
Dawn Penn,
Deadbeat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visage,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Angry Samoans,
OOIOO,
F. McDonald,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blackbyrds,
Don Cherry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cowsills,
The Knickerbockers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Donald Byrd,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Byrd,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soft Cell,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
La Düsseldorf,
Gong,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Bananas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Radiohead,
Television,
The Zeros,
Neu!,
The Kinks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grey Daturas,
Sparks,
H. Thieme,
The Busters,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Human League,
Urselle,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.