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 Slovakia and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Standells to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
The Standells,
Subhumans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Velvet Underground,
Carl Craig,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sun City Girls,
John Holt,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soulsonic Force,
Trumans Water,
Yellowson,
Jerry's Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stereo Dub,
Maleditus Sound,
LL Cool J,
Soft Machine,
Yaz,
MC5,
Zero Boys,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delta 5,
Yusef Lateef,
Bluetip,
Half Japanese,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Misunderstood,
kango's stein massive,
The Blackbyrds,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
Newcleus,
Derrick Morgan,
Loose Ends,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Green,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grandmaster Flash,
AZ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Iggy Pop,
The Neon Judgement,
Parry Music,
Alton Ellis,
Peter and Kerry,
Make Up,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Unrelated Segments,
The Barracudas,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.