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 Malaysia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cymande to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 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 Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Tremeloes,
Gabor Szabo,
Leonard Cohen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Babytalk,
The Neon Judgement,
Absolute Body Control,
The Selecter,
Roxy Music,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Christie,
John Cale,
The Gories,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Moon,
Joe Finger,
Ten City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
a-ha,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Urselle,
Soft Cell,
Fluxion,
The Trojans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Sherman,
Scan 7,
Terry Callier,
Bill Wells,
Quando Quango,
Half Japanese,
LL Cool J,
Oneida,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Gang of Four,
The Sonics,
Siglo XX,
Procol Harum,
Traffic Nightmare,
New Age Steppers,
John Coltrane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pagans,
Wire,
Newcleus,
Sugar Minott,
Lebanon Hanover,
Chrome,
Sarah Menescal,
Sixth Finger,
Sparks,
Warsaw,
Subhumans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.