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 Mali and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Swans to the electroclash 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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
The Fortunes,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Womack,
Joey Negro,
New York Dolls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Susan Cadogan,
Adolescents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cure,
Wally Richardson,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Sister Nancy,
Can,
Black Bananas,
The Leaves,
Metal Thangz,
The Beau Brummels,
Blake Baxter,
OOIOO,
Skriet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roger Hodgson,
Ornette Coleman,
Marc Almond,
Bob Dylan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Liliput,
Cheater Slicks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nas,
PIL,
Accadde A,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Von Mondo,
Negative Approach,
The Motions,
Davy DMX,
The J.B.'s,
Tears for Fears,
Main Source,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Dirtbombs,
Bauhaus,
Procol Harum,
Gang Gang Dance,
Youth Brigade,
Blancmange,
David Axelrod,
Girls At Our Best!,
Excepter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.