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 Palau and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro 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 Todd Terry to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
The Remains,
Bad Manners,
Bill Wells,
Dual Sessions,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joe Finger,
Underground Resistance,
Tubeway Army,
Ronnie Foster,
Frankie Knuckles,
Goldenarms,
Ornette Coleman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Darondo,
Henry Cow,
the Slits,
Nick Fraelich,
Supertramp,
Rapeman,
Minor Threat,
Easy Going,
The Zeros,
Siglo XX,
kango's stein massive,
Yazoo,
Metal Thangz,
Minnie Riperton,
Pulsallama,
Television Personalities,
The Gories,
The Cowsills,
Country Teasers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls,
New York Dolls,
Johnny Clarke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rotary Connection,
Loose Ends,
Pierre Henry,
Matthew Bourne,
H. Thieme,
Ice-T,
Man Parrish,
Thompson Twins,
The Trojans,
Jeff Mills,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fear,
Black Moon,
Pere Ubu,
Danielle Patucci,
Simply Red,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.