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 Australia and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source 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?
Dave Gahan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gastr Del Sol,
Archie Shepp,
X-Ray Spex,
The Black Dice,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Lower 48,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Donny Hathaway,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tommy Roe,
Swell Maps,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Kinks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fat Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
The Residents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
U.S. Maple,
The Buckinghams,
Mandrill,
Terry Callier,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deepchord,
Lindisfarne,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
David McCallum,
Slick Rick,
The Fugs,
Aaron Thompson,
Drexciya,
Amazonics,
Marc Almond,
Sixth Finger,
Bad Manners,
48th St. Collective,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Monolake,
Faraquet,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zapp,
Scratch Acid,
The Associates,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
Susan Cadogan,
Loose Ends,
Eli Mardock,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.