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 Denmark and from Hong Kong.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Idris Muhammad to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Gang Green,
The Smiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scion,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
MDC,
Gong,
Max Romeo,
Easy Going,
Unrelated Segments,
Scientists,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nils Olav,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Zeros,
The Fuzztones,
Ten City,
Bobby Byrd,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Adolescents,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
48th St. Collective,
Von Mondo,
David Axelrod,
Tomorrow,
Iggy Pop,
Delta 5,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mantronix,
D'Angelo,
Dave Gahan,
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lucky Dragons,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deepchord,
Supertramp,
The Techniques,
The Fugs,
Sun City Girls,
The Invisible,
Alice Coltrane,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fortunes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Throbbing Gristle,
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tim Buckley,
Gregory Isaacs,
Alton Ellis,
The Black Dice,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.