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 Djibouti and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Jacob Miller 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Visage,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alison Limerick,
Al Stewart,
Jeff Lynne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anthony Braxton,
Sound Behaviour,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Ituana,
The Standells,
Angry Samoans,
Joe Smooth,
Minutemen,
New Age Steppers,
Vladislav Delay,
Dead Boys,
JFA,
the Normal,
Agitation Free,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Teasers,
Adolescents,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Beau Brummels,
Jerry's Kids,
Ice-T,
Jesper Dahlback,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pantaleimon,
The Offenders,
Kurtis Blow,
Rufus Thomas,
Blake Baxter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bad Manners,
In Retrospect,
Gang of Four,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kaleidoscope,
X-101,
Tres Demented,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cramps,
Aaron Thompson,
The Seeds,
the Human League,
Section 25,
The Doobie Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crispy Ambulance,
Accadde A,
Piero Umiliani,
The Toasters,
Panda Bear,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.