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 Gabon and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Harmonia to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Delta 5,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Certain Ratio,
FM Einheit,
Trumans Water,
Mo-Dettes,
The New Christs,
Johnny Clarke,
Maurizio,
Leonard Cohen,
Erykah Badu,
Jacques Brel,
Visage,
Vladislav Delay,
Country Teasers,
The Blues Magoos,
Peter & Gordon,
The Evens,
Rekid,
The Tremeloes,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arthur Verocai,
Nico,
Arab on Radar,
Simply Red,
Sällskapet,
Tim Buckley,
The Mummies,
The Move,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Q and Not U,
China Crisis,
Scratch Acid,
Don Cherry,
Bad Manners,
a-ha,
X-Ray Spex,
Liliput,
Cecil Taylor,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
The Black Dice,
Outsiders,
Ituana,
New Order,
Babytalk,
Black Pus,
The Wake,
Quando Quango,
Yazoo,
Sugar Minott,
Nick Fraelich,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
LL Cool J,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Joe Smooth,
the Normal,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.