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 Guyana and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 The Fall to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Theoretical Girls,
Bauhaus,
Radio Birdman,
Roxy Music,
AZ,
The Walker Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Skaos,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Soft Cell,
Technova,
Y Pants,
The Smoke,
Boredoms,
Supertramp,
Michelle Simonal,
The Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Funky Four + One,
The Techniques,
Easy Going,
Derrick Morgan,
Deakin,
Skarface,
Peter and Kerry,
K-Klass,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minutemen,
Scan 7,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moss Icon,
Lucky Dragons,
Kaleidoscope,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Panda Bear,
The Kinks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hashim,
Bang On A Can,
Warsaw,
The Index,
Grandmaster Flash,
Duran Duran,
Soulsonic Force,
FM Einheit,
This Heat,
The Dead C,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
10cc,
Clear Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roxette,
Kerri Chandler,
48th St. Collective,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tom Boy,
Vainqueur,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.