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 Papua New Guinea and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 DJ Style to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Stooges,
Pylon,
Motorama,
Bootsy Collins,
Howard Jones,
The Black Dice,
Basic Channel,
Saccharine Trust,
Jerry's Kids,
Jandek,
Dark Day,
Rekid,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Maleditus Sound,
The Dead C,
Marcia Griffiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
E-Dancer,
Aural Exciters,
D'Angelo,
Ronan,
Q and Not U,
Mandrill,
Lalann,
Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cure,
Vladislav Delay,
Oblivians,
the Human League,
The Electric Prunes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Roger Hodgson,
John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
Kas Product,
Shoche,
Laurel Aitken,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fire Engines,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Beau Brummels,
The Birthday Party,
Yazoo,
Theoretical Girls,
U.S. Maple,
Khruangbin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Harmonia,
Blossom Toes,
Technova,
Television Personalities,
Suburban Knight,
Funkadelic,
Ponytail,
Ice-T,
Don Cherry,
Ohio Players,
Section 25,
Make Up,
the Normal,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.