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 Latvia and from Portland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
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 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 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 Bauhaus to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Scratch Acid,
Minny Pops,
Sun City Girls,
Magma,
The Saints,
The Sound,
Au Pairs,
DJ Sneak,
The Cowsills,
Pole,
Motorama,
Animal Collective,
Bill Near,
Rapeman,
Lou Christie,
a-ha,
Davy DMX,
the Swans,
Glenn Branca,
Chrome,
Suicide,
Amon Düül II,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Divine Comedy,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fortunes,
Maurizio,
Accadde A,
Deepchord,
John Foxx,
Schoolly D,
Barrington Levy,
Dawn Penn,
Audionom,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Fraelich,
Marmalade,
Funky Four + One,
The Skatalites,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
The Wake,
Leonard Cohen,
Quantec,
Surgeon,
Stockholm Monsters,
K-Klass,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
10cc,
Make Up,
Sparks,
Max Romeo,
Bob Dylan,
Gang of Four,
Dennis Brown,
In Retrospect,
Dead Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang Green,
Alphaville,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.