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 Zimbabwe and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sneak to the punk 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Jeff Mills,
Yusef Lateef,
Depeche Mode,
The Monks,
The Busters,
Sparks,
Michelle Simonal,
The Black Dice,
Au Pairs,
The United States of America,
Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men,
Bootsy Collins,
Circle Jerks,
the Germs,
The Birthday Party,
Black Pus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moebius,
Absolute Body Control,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang of Four,
Erykah Badu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tubeway Army,
Joey Negro,
Dennis Brown,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Connie Case,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pierre Henry,
X-102,
Wings,
Derrick May,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barrington Levy,
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Metal Thangz,
The Human League,
John Lydon,
X-101,
Ossler,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker,
The Fugs,
Zapp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flipper,
Goldenarms,
New Order,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radiohead,
Brass Construction,
Outsiders,
Cluster,
Blossom Toes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.