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 Tajikistan and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Jeff Lynne to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
MC5,
CMW,
Lindisfarne,
Schoolly D,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sex Pistols,
Drexciya,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang On A Can,
Angry Samoans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Christie,
The Toasters,
The Cure,
Todd Terry,
Motorama,
10cc,
Pere Ubu,
Sun City Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Qualms,
Man Parrish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pet Shop Boys,
Visage,
Metal Thangz,
Hashim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cal Tjader,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Funkadelic,
Mandrill,
Eli Mardock,
Piero Umiliani,
Prince Buster,
Arab on Radar,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Isaac Hayes,
Malaria!,
Eden Ahbez,
Pierre Henry,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Magma,
Sällskapet,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skriet,
Subhumans,
Neu!,
The Neon Judgement,
China Crisis,
Duran Duran,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moby Grape,
Hot Snakes,
Swell Maps,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Connie Case,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.