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 Italy and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Boredoms,
ABBA,
Sun City Girls,
Flipper,
Gong,
Mars,
Arcadia,
In Retrospect,
The Mojo Men,
The Victims,
The Motions,
The Five Americans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rapeman,
Can,
The Offenders,
kango's stein massive,
Sun Ra,
Matthew Halsall,
Swell Maps,
Suburban Knight,
Niagra,
Yusef Lateef,
Drexciya,
10cc,
The Real Kids,
Lakeside,
Eli Mardock,
Sarah Menescal,
The Standells,
the Soft Cell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Andrew Hill,
Stetsasonic,
Alphaville,
Marmalade,
Quantec,
KRS-One,
Sandy B,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harry Pussy,
MC5,
The Slackers,
The American Breed,
Glambeats Corp.,
Essential Logic,
T. Rex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cowsills,
Black Bananas,
X-101,
Pantaleimon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dual Sessions,
Animal Collective,
The Happenings,
Fluxion,
Hoover,
Q and Not U,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.