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 Swaziland and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Shoche to the techno 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Yusef Lateef,
Erasure,
Bush Tetras,
Nik Kershaw,
Lindisfarne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The United States of America,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dirtbombs,
Amazonics,
Pagans,
Boz Scaggs,
John Lydon,
The Toasters,
Skaos,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Saints,
Harpers Bizarre,
Agent Orange,
Eurythmics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smoke,
The Litter,
LL Cool J,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Sheep,
Johnny Clarke,
the Swans,
Graham Central Station,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fall,
Half Japanese,
The Monochrome Set,
Procol Harum,
Technova,
Pole,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fugs,
Max Romeo,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cramps,
Lungfish,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeff Lynne,
Mo-Dettes,
The Raincoats,
cv313,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
FM Einheit,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sixth Finger,
Idris Muhammad,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Babytalk,
Moss Icon,
The Residents,
Trumans Water,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crime,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.