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 Japan and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Cecil Taylor to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Talk Talk,
Neu!,
Surgeon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
Letta Mbulu,
Animal Collective,
The Black Dice,
Colin Newman,
Rapeman,
The Pretty Things,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Guru Guru,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Godley & Creme,
The Velvet Underground,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sun City Girls,
Prince Buster,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
AZ,
The Misunderstood,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gichy Dan,
DNA,
Rotary Connection,
Monks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Durutti Column,
World's Most,
The Fall,
Fad Gadget,
Minor Threat,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Five Americans,
Marmalade,
Sun Ra,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Electric Prunes,
The Residents,
Stereo Dub,
Dawn Penn,
Agitation Free,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Oblivians,
ABBA,
Yaz,
The Doors,
Qualms,
Skaos,
the Sonics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cecil Taylor,
China Crisis,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.