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 Senegal and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lungfish to the disco 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock 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?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
ABC,
a-ha,
Rekid,
Gabor Szabo,
The Vogues,
Ossler,
Marvin Gaye,
Unwound,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Leonard Cohen,
Bluetip,
The Gladiators,
Ronnie Foster,
Bauhaus,
Josef K,
Sister Nancy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool Moe Dee,
Piero Umiliani,
Prince Buster,
Avey Tare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scratch Acid,
Kenny Larkin,
Gregory Isaacs,
EPMD,
Flipper,
Cecil Taylor,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Country Teasers,
Sarah Menescal,
Pole,
Moby Grape,
Fat Boys,
Dark Day,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scientists,
Glenn Branca,
Hasil Adkins,
Essential Logic,
Shoche,
Big Daddy Kane,
James White and The Blacks,
Niagra,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Qualms,
Faust,
H. Thieme,
Aural Exciters,
Tubeway Army,
Outsiders,
The Human League,
Scott Walker,
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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.