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 Guinea and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Amon Düül II to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Little Man,
Skarface,
World's Most,
Bang On A Can,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Smoke,
Pussy Galore,
Freddie Wadling,
Pagans,
cv313,
Fluxion,
Subhumans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
This Heat,
Niagra,
Roy Ayers,
Aloha Tigers,
The Searchers,
David Bowie,
Accadde A,
Agitation Free,
Moebius,
The Divine Comedy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Don Cherry,
The Misunderstood,
OOIOO,
Eddi Front,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Audionom,
The Index,
Mr. Review,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rekid,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
Goldenarms,
The Martian,
EPMD,
Jandek,
Lebanon Hanover,
H. Thieme,
Mantronix,
the Soft Cell,
The Sonics,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy Collins,
The Saints,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bluetip,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.