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 United States and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Todd Terry to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
The Golliwogs,
Warren Ellis,
Ice-T,
Dark Day,
Yellowson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Morten Harket,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Cramps,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anthony Braxton,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker,
Angry Samoans,
kango's stein massive,
Aswad,
Matthew Halsall,
Amon Düül,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultra Naté,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Curtis Mayfield,
MDC,
Marine Girls,
Iggy Pop,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fugazi,
The Blackbyrds,
The Music Machine,
Eurythmics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Offenders,
The New Christs,
Unwound,
This Heat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cymande,
The Knickerbockers,
Nik Kershaw,
The Detroit Cobras,
Main Source,
Derrick May,
Soulsonic Force,
Parry Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Josef K,
Clear Light,
Bill Near,
Dennis Brown,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Los Fastidios,
Technova,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.