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 Indonesia 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 The Smiths to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Piero Umiliani,
The Cure,
Janne Schatter,
Eddi Front,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
kango's stein massive,
The Selecter,
David Axelrod,
Aloha Tigers,
Public Enemy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lyres,
Audionom,
Pantaleimon,
Boredoms,
Pylon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Barracudas,
Fear,
Quantec,
T.S.O.L.,
Crash Course in Science,
Wasted Youth,
Arcadia,
Peter and Kerry,
Mo-Dettes,
Sight & Sound,
Marc Almond,
Stiv Bators,
Gang Starr,
Camberwell Now,
Rites of Spring,
Siglo XX,
JFA,
The Black Dice,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kayak,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Monochrome Set,
Letta Mbulu,
Todd Terry,
CMW,
A Certain Ratio,
Sonic Youth,
Josef K,
Amon Düül II,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lindisfarne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Darondo,
Stetsasonic,
The Vogues,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cramps,
The Offenders,
Tommy Roe,
Desert Stars,
The Modern Lovers,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.