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 Equatorial Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro 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 Deakin to the rap 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Reed,
Nick Fraelich,
Pussy Galore,
Johnny Osbourne,
Patti Smith,
Index,
Suicide,
UT,
Pylon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wings,
The Raincoats,
Lakeside,
the Slits,
Letta Mbulu,
The Tremeloes,
Ice-T,
Whodini,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
L. Decosne,
Section 25,
Scott Walker,
Rotary Connection,
Easy Going,
CMW,
OOIOO,
The Dave Clark Five,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Alton Ellis,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Cowsills,
Country Teasers,
The Residents,
Hoover,
Ituana,
Cameo,
Bauhaus,
Deadbeat,
The Smoke,
Make Up,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maurizio,
The Misunderstood,
The Doors,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Vogues,
The Moody Blues,
Scan 7,
Electric Prunes,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Maleditus Sound,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.