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 Barbados and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Derrick Morgan,
the Association,
Agitation Free,
Eden Ahbez,
Mr. Review,
The Moleskins,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jeff Mills,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Hood,
The Pretty Things,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Idris Muhammad,
Oneida,
Kenny Larkin,
Letta Mbulu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Juan Atkins,
Underground Resistance,
The Doors,
The Electric Prunes,
The Sound,
The Searchers,
Marine Girls,
Donald Byrd,
Ralphi Rosario,
Television Personalities,
Rakim,
Peter and Kerry,
Cal Tjader,
The Busters,
Grey Daturas,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jacques Brel,
Sound Behaviour,
Johnny Clarke,
The Monochrome Set,
Bush Tetras,
Sugar Minott,
Cluster,
Ohio Players,
The Remains,
Drexciya,
Pantytec,
Clear Light,
Andrew Hill,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Index,
Junior Murvin,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Saints,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ludus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.