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 Bhutan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the electroclash 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Duran Duran,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
Matthew Halsall,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
Ken Boothe,
Basic Channel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Schoolly D,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hasil Adkins,
Simply Red,
Lightning Bolt,
K-Klass,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
The Durutti Column,
Eve St. Jones,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Birthday Party,
Yaz,
Slick Rick,
Television Personalities,
MC5,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Barracudas,
Soulsonic Force,
David Bowie,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eurythmics,
Erasure,
Maurizio,
The Busters,
Eden Ahbez,
Derrick Morgan,
Harry Pussy,
David McCallum,
The Tremeloes,
Grey Daturas,
Wally Richardson,
Ronnie Foster,
Qualms,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Victims,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Steve Hackett,
The Red Krayola,
Derrick May,
Popol Vuh,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Heaven 17,
Procol Harum,
The J.B.'s,
Boogie Down Productions,
Outsiders,
The Cramps,
Don Cherry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.