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 Finland and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord 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 John Lydon 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish 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 '70s 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 The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Swell Maps,
Make Up,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
The Busters,
Ronan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Pretty Things,
Basic Channel,
Fad Gadget,
Lalann,
Roxette,
Magma,
Reuben Wilson,
Hot Snakes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eden Ahbez,
Boz Scaggs,
James White and The Blacks,
Kaleidoscope,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eve St. Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Green,
The Buckinghams,
Wire,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rufus Thomas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Saints,
Blancmange,
Matthew Bourne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kerrie Biddell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The J.B.'s,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Raincoats,
Negative Approach,
The Standells,
Jeff Lynne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Slits,
Second Layer,
The Smiths,
Animal Collective,
The Barracudas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Pus,
New York Dolls,
Arcadia,
Black Moon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.