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 Switzerland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar 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 Moby Grape to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rufus Thomas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Theoretical Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
Yazoo,
Connie Case,
The Mojo Men,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
the Normal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nico,
the Sonics,
Mars,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Henry Cow,
Trumans Water,
Kas Product,
Slave,
Japan,
Morten Harket,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hot Snakes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Newcleus,
Ohio Players,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Cameo,
Groovy Waters,
Half Japanese,
MDC,
Neil Young,
David McCallum,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Max Romeo,
Scrapy,
DJ Sneak,
Swans,
Ice-T,
Eyeless In Gaza,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mo-Dettes,
Make Up,
Roxette,
Bill Near,
Brass Construction,
Severed Heads,
Black Sheep,
Black Pus,
Scientists,
Erykah Badu,
Amon Düül II,
Barbara Tucker,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.