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 Paraguay and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 marimba 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 Interpol to the disco 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Motorama,
Dual Sessions,
Jandek,
Ludus,
The Martian,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monochrome Set,
the Human League,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pylon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Bourne,
cv313,
Y Pants,
The Grass Roots,
Yazoo,
Steve Hackett,
Nas,
The Saints,
Los Fastidios,
This Heat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
E-Dancer,
Reuben Wilson,
Prince Buster,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bush Tetras,
Pharoah Sanders,
Morten Harket,
ABC,
Mo-Dettes,
Malaria!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Erykah Badu,
Whodini,
Bang On A Can,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Agitation Free,
The Shadows of Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
The Doors,
Crooked Eye,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
MC5,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Leaves,
Technova,
John Lydon,
Ponytail,
Franke,
H. Thieme,
48th St. Collective,
Blossom Toes,
the Bar-Kays,
Scratch Acid,
Guru Guru,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.