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 Kiribati 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dave Gahan to the rock 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Nas,
Marine Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Goldenarms,
Tim Buckley,
Pere Ubu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ronan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mo-Dettes,
the Slits,
Hoover,
The Neon Judgement,
Jacob Miller,
Erykah Badu,
The Offenders,
Parry Music,
Von Mondo,
Wings,
AZ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
EPMD,
Banda Bassotti,
The Birthday Party,
Rapeman,
Lindisfarne,
MC5,
Sam Rivers,
The Raincoats,
Donald Byrd,
Accadde A,
Pantaleimon,
The Happenings,
Silicon Teens,
R.M.O.,
The Gap Band,
The Durutti Column,
Alphaville,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Davy DMX,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roxy Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Franke,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mars,
FM Einheit,
The Slits,
The Pop Group,
Chris Corsano,
World's Most,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.