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 Turkey and from Delhi.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aswad 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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
the Swans,
Bill Wells,
Flipper,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nik Kershaw,
Cybotron,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gun Club,
The Leaves,
Deepchord,
The Human League,
Rhythm & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Slackers,
Eric Dolphy,
Reagan Youth,
The Cure,
Thompson Twins,
Glambeats Corp.,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quando Quango,
Gerry Rafferty,
Roxy Music,
Bill Near,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fire Engines,
The Fall,
Clear Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Johnny Clarke,
Underground Resistance,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Womack,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
E-Dancer,
Loose Ends,
R.M.O.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Porter Ricks,
The Modern Lovers,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fluxion,
Scan 7,
Y Pants,
Dual Sessions,
Silicon Teens,
Alton Ellis,
The Five Americans,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.