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 India 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul Sonic Force to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Motions,
World's Most,
Gichy Dan,
Erasure,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Blake Baxter,
Joe Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erykah Badu,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Moss Icon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Osbourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
One Last Wish,
The American Breed,
Alice Coltrane,
Popol Vuh,
Nas,
Aural Exciters,
Main Source,
Jeff Mills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare,
Bronski Beat,
Aloha Tigers,
Boredoms,
Loose Ends,
The Gories,
Iggy Pop,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry's Kids,
Ornette Coleman,
Silicon Teens,
Dawn Penn,
Grauzone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Reagan Youth,
ABBA,
Massinfluence,
Funkadelic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Beau Brummels,
The Litter,
Echospace,
Vladislav Delay,
Franke,
Faust,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chris & Cosey,
The Seeds,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.