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 Barbados and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 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 Skriet to the jazz 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
New York Dolls,
Skaos,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Technova,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Khruangbin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Depeche Mode,
Inner City,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mummies,
Glenn Branca,
the Sonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Magma,
D'Angelo,
Quadrant,
Con Funk Shun,
Roxette,
Amazonics,
PIL,
Cymande,
Anthony Braxton,
CMW,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul II Soul,
10cc,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grauzone,
Warren Ellis,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
the Association,
Pere Ubu,
Barrington Levy,
Kas Product,
Brothers Johnson,
Spoonie Gee,
DNA,
Amon Düül II,
Isaac Hayes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Infiniti,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Reagan Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
Gregory Isaacs,
Basic Channel,
Joey Negro,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad,
Joyce Sims,
The Toasters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scion,
Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eric Dolphy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.