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 Moldova 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 marimba 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 Royal Trux to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Whodini,
Das Ding,
Chris Corsano,
Dawn Penn,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Motorama,
The Angels of Light,
Procol Harum,
kango's stein massive,
Dark Day,
The Pop Group,
Sarah Menescal,
The Walker Brothers,
The Red Krayola,
the Soft Cell,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mars,
Television Personalities,
Blancmange,
Zapp,
ABC,
Cymande,
ABBA,
Trumans Water,
Sister Nancy,
Andrew Hill,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
Gang Starr,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wasted Youth,
Tomorrow,
Morten Harket,
Delta 5,
The Doors,
MDC,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The J.B.'s,
Ultra Naté,
Carl Craig,
Popol Vuh,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Agitation Free,
Rites of Spring,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eli Mardock,
Joe Smooth,
Aural Exciters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fuzztones,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Bourne,
Max Romeo,
KRS-One,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.