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 Mozambique and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Pop Group to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Toni Rubio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pierre Henry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Niagra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The American Breed,
Pulsallama,
Josef K,
Mars,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
JFA,
Nick Fraelich,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Von Mondo,
The J.B.'s,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alton Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Christie,
Fatback Band,
the Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
48th St. Collective,
Sugar Minott,
LL Cool J,
Brass Construction,
Model 500,
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gichy Dan,
Matthew Halsall,
Cluster,
Fela Kuti,
Junior Murvin,
Quando Quango,
Kaleidoscope,
FM Einheit,
Maleditus Sound,
Metal Thangz,
The Tremeloes,
Chris Corsano,
Thompson Twins,
Andrew Hill,
Yellowson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neu!,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Unrelated Segments,
Eden Ahbez,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.