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 Turkey and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Knickerbockers to the techno 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Wake,
Slave,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Spandau Ballet,
Cheater Slicks,
Yazoo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Derrick May,
The Remains,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
R.M.O.,
A Certain Ratio,
Scientists,
Joe Finger,
T. Rex,
The Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
Dave Gahan,
Wings,
Zapp,
Grey Daturas,
Duran Duran,
The Sound,
Colin Newman,
Ludus,
The Neon Judgement,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Section 25,
These Immortal Souls,
Gong,
Yellowson,
Sixth Finger,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gun Club,
The Residents,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Moleskins,
Anakelly,
Scrapy,
Lou Christie,
This Heat,
Wolf Eyes,
Cybotron,
Scratch Acid,
Symarip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Freddie Wadling,
Robert Hood,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scion,
The Stooges,
UT,
Todd Terry,
Unwound,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.