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 Antigua and from Manchester.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord 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 Qualms to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arthur Verocai,
Brick,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gong,
Cameo,
Suicide,
The Sonics,
R.M.O.,
The Wake,
Goldenarms,
The Seeds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sonic Youth,
X-101,
Section 25,
Skriet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yaz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marcia Griffiths,
CMW,
Arab on Radar,
The Skatalites,
The Leaves,
Donald Byrd,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
The Residents,
Country Teasers,
Glenn Branca,
The American Breed,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
the Swans,
Eli Mardock,
Wally Richardson,
The Evens,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Sherman,
the Association,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Can,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Green,
Hashim,
Mad Mike,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Black Dice,
Kurtis Blow,
Cybotron,
Lindisfarne,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
Television Personalities,
Young Marble Giants,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.