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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 China Crisis to the grime 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Drexciya,
Funkadelic,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-102,
Zero Boys,
Gang Green,
Scott Walker,
H. Thieme,
The Standells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Agent Orange,
Gang of Four,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
Gong,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ituana,
The Trojans,
EPMD,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blossom Toes,
Kaleidoscope,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scientists,
Roxette,
The Gladiators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Iggy Pop,
David McCallum,
Bootsy Collins,
Soft Cell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Charles Mingus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
Fat Boys,
Donny Hathaway,
Nico,
Jawbox,
Bad Manners,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Funky Four + One,
Lucky Dragons,
Spandau Ballet,
Soulsonic Force,
Youth Brigade,
Brand Nubian,
E-Dancer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Audionom,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Swell Maps,
Marc Almond,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.