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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 The Alarm Clocks to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Index,
Archie Shepp,
EPMD,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donald Byrd,
Infiniti,
Juan Atkins,
Pet Shop Boys,
Silicon Teens,
Brand Nubian,
The American Breed,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
The Slackers,
The Kinks,
Livin' Joy,
Lalann,
Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
Rod Modell,
Hoover,
Kaleidoscope,
Quadrant,
David Axelrod,
Procol Harum,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Pop Group,
The Martian,
Blake Baxter,
Arcadia,
Andrew Hill,
Hot Snakes,
The Beau Brummels,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
Mr. Review,
Graham Central Station,
Marcia Griffiths,
Outsiders,
The Last Poets,
Jacob Miller,
Delon & Dalcan,
Frankie Knuckles,
MC5,
The Techniques,
Yellowson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wolf Eyes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Michelle Simonal,
Shuggie Otis,
Dennis Brown,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Rotary Connection,
Amazonics,
DJ Sneak,
Agent Orange,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.