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 Lithuania and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Pere Ubu to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Henry Cow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wire,
Rufus Thomas,
Pole,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
Bob Dylan,
Clear Light,
Roxy Music,
Lalann,
The Blackbyrds,
Idris Muhammad,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pantaleimon,
The Human League,
The Skatalites,
Hardrive,
Faraquet,
China Crisis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cluster,
Maleditus Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Hasil Adkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Franke,
Skaos,
Andrew Hill,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Arab on Radar,
Desert Stars,
Quando Quango,
Connie Case,
Schoolly D,
Motorama,
Spoonie Gee,
Cymande,
AZ,
Easy Going,
The Neon Judgement,
Banda Bassotti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lakeside,
Gong,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Depeche Mode,
Zapp,
The Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
One Last Wish,
Lou Christie,
Pantytec,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.