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 Syria and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Johnny Clarke to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Essential Logic,
Suburban Knight,
The Stooges,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Technova,
Index,
Scion,
Ultravox,
Hot Snakes,
New York Dolls,
Ludus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
Sexual Harrassment,
Visage,
London Community Gospel Choir,
D'Angelo,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
Alton Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
DJ Style,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q65,
One Last Wish,
Bootsy Collins,
Y Pants,
Dead Boys,
The Fortunes,
LL Cool J,
Connie Case,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rufus Thomas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
U.S. Maple,
Dave Gahan,
Au Pairs,
Japan,
Porter Ricks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Maurizio,
The Human League,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Cure,
Massinfluence,
E-Dancer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Selecter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tropical Tobacco,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Desert Stars,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.