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 Spain and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Tropical Tobacco to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Jesper Dahlback,
L. Decosne,
Little Man,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker,
Essential Logic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pole,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Stereo Dub,
Josef K,
Rufus Thomas,
Television,
The Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Last Poets,
Minutemen,
Joe Finger,
Lucky Dragons,
Mad Mike,
Von Mondo,
Buzzcocks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ornette Coleman,
The Index,
Simply Red,
Gil Scott Heron,
Neu!,
Heaven 17,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Ronnie Foster,
Funky Four + One,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grauzone,
Faraquet,
The Slits,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Busters,
Sonic Youth,
The Pop Group,
Monks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Byron Stingily,
World's Most,
The Monks,
Rosa Yemen,
Eve St. Jones,
Skarface,
Marcia Griffiths,
Crime,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.