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 Latvia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rotary Connection to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
Minor Threat,
H. Thieme,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harpers Bizarre,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yellowson,
Harmonia,
Young Marble Giants,
The Doors,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Trumans Water,
Ronnie Foster,
Bang On A Can,
Sex Pistols,
Khruangbin,
Pulsallama,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moss Icon,
Second Layer,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fat Boys,
Darondo,
Parry Music,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barry Ungar,
Wally Richardson,
A Certain Ratio,
a-ha,
the Germs,
Alton Ellis,
The Last Poets,
China Crisis,
The Remains,
Nils Olav,
Roxy Music,
Boredoms,
The Gories,
Joe Smooth,
Infiniti,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Andrew Hill,
Talk Talk,
Quantec,
AZ,
Sister Nancy,
Grauzone,
Ludus,
Pantytec,
Yaz,
Scan 7,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.