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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Technova to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
KRS-One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Con Funk Shun,
Ponytail,
Boogie Down Productions,
Reagan Youth,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed,
Masters at Work,
Flipper,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Green,
Shuggie Otis,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick May,
Reuben Wilson,
Animal Collective,
Lungfish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eddi Front,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marcia Griffiths,
ABBA,
Connie Case,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
Von Mondo,
Nik Kershaw,
Janne Schatter,
Soft Machine,
The Seeds,
Glenn Branca,
Nick Fraelich,
Fifty Foot Hose,
cv313,
The Blackbyrds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Magma,
Black Sheep,
Theoretical Girls,
Boredoms,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Trojans,
Thee Headcoats,
Howard Jones,
the Human League,
Sam Rivers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sonics,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.