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 Lesotho 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb 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 Marvin Gaye to the electroclash 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
The Zeros,
Goldenarms,
The Techniques,
Make Up,
The Velvet Underground,
Moss Icon,
The Walker Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter and Kerry,
Index,
Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultravox,
Skaos,
Soulsonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Trumans Water,
UT,
MC5,
Section 25,
The Wake,
Skarface,
FM Einheit,
Heaven 17,
LL Cool J,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Minny Pops,
Black Sheep,
The Smoke,
Lightning Bolt,
Johnny Clarke,
Dual Sessions,
Motorama,
Drexciya,
Wasted Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Circle Jerks,
The Star Department,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
The Real Kids,
The Human League,
Kaleidoscope,
Newcleus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Das Ding,
Derrick May,
The Flesh Eaters,
X-101,
Technova,
Yusef Lateef,
Fatback Band,
China Crisis,
Crooked Eye,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.