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 Paraguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Main Source to the crunk 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Rod Modell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kas Product,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Lydon,
Porter Ricks,
Cameo,
Joensuu 1685,
Ohio Players,
Ken Boothe,
Gichy Dan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Names,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cybotron,
The Busters,
Dennis Brown,
D'Angelo,
Jimmy McGriff,
ABC,
Moby Grape,
the Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Icehouse,
Underground Resistance,
Franke,
Soft Cell,
Letta Mbulu,
Minor Threat,
Grauzone,
Model 500,
The Walker Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
the Normal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Harry Pussy,
Connie Case,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Shoche,
Trumans Water,
Technova,
The Golliwogs,
Bluetip,
Yaz,
Josef K,
Rhythm & Sound,
Newcleus,
Half Japanese,
Nik Kershaw,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Görl,
Livin' Joy,
Organ,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.