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 Spain and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Techniques 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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camouflage,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Frankie Knuckles,
Young Marble Giants,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fugazi,
The Golliwogs,
This Heat,
Unwound,
Von Mondo,
The Misunderstood,
Soulsonic Force,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Anakelly,
Lyres,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Order,
The Blues Magoos,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang of Four,
Clear Light,
The Trojans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Organ,
Maurizio,
The Beau Brummels,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Don Cherry,
X-101,
The Fall,
Easy Going,
Radiohead,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Vogues,
Janne Schatter,
The Wake,
Ronan,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
Buzzcocks,
the Bar-Kays,
B.T. Express,
Black Flag,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerri Chandler,
Mars,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ludus,
Schoolly D,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sonic Youth,
Minny Pops,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Chrome,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.