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 Denmark and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Terrestrial Tones to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cecil Taylor,
Youth Brigade,
Sonny Sharrock,
This Heat,
Skarface,
Index,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lindisfarne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Andrew Hill,
Carl Craig,
Main Source,
Sparks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Residents,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Supertramp,
Skaos,
The New Christs,
Magma,
Todd Rundgren,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gun Club,
The Angels of Light,
The Real Kids,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Oneida,
David McCallum,
The Gories,
Shoche,
Crime,
Deakin,
The Smiths,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Con Funk Shun,
Minnie Riperton,
John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
Ronan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Grauzone,
Panda Bear,
Glenn Branca,
Faust,
PIL,
The Zeros,
Organ,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars,
Flamin' Groovies,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Misunderstood,
Quantec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.