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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Radiohead to the crunk 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
David Axelrod,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pierre Henry,
Boogie Down Productions,
Silicon Teens,
Jandek,
Yaz,
The Pop Group,
Franke,
The Cowsills,
Peter & Gordon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Leaves,
Goldenarms,
Dead Boys,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
Little Man,
Mantronix,
Colin Newman,
DJ Sneak,
LL Cool J,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Dead C,
The Associates,
Funkadelic,
The Litter,
Stereo Dub,
Shoche,
Pantaleimon,
the Swans,
Royal Trux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
Gichy Dan,
Sarah Menescal,
The Neon Judgement,
The Moleskins,
Archie Shepp,
The Durutti Column,
Popol Vuh,
Arthur Verocai,
Trumans Water,
Joe Finger,
The Star Department,
The Walker Brothers,
Rapeman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Green,
Funky Four + One,
Brand Nubian,
Young Marble Giants,
The Real Kids,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.