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 Greece 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Das Ding to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
David Bowie,
Alphaville,
Motorama,
Sound Behaviour,
Wire,
The Red Krayola,
Scratch Acid,
Moss Icon,
James White and The Blacks,
Grauzone,
Scientists,
Donald Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Echospace,
The Human League,
Cybotron,
Juan Atkins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Mummies,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Kenny Larkin,
Mandrill,
The Index,
Peter and Kerry,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
The Cure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Wally Richardson,
the Bar-Kays,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
FM Einheit,
Minor Threat,
Ultravox,
Barbara Tucker,
8 Eyed Spy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
DJ Sneak,
Derrick May,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Divine Comedy,
Surgeon,
PIL,
Los Fastidios,
Yazoo,
Faust,
Crooked Eye,
Soulsonic Force,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.