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 United Kingdom 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 The Fugs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Brass Construction,
Tommy Roe,
Alison Limerick,
John Lydon,
Nils Olav,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fall,
Lalann,
Tim Buckley,
Chris & Cosey,
Eurythmics,
Tears for Fears,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pole,
Lower 48,
Roxy Music,
Laurel Aitken,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Wings,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Zeros,
Rapeman,
Robert Hood,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Moon,
U.S. Maple,
Wire,
Sarah Menescal,
James White and The Blacks,
The Real Kids,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crime,
8 Eyed Spy,
DJ Sneak,
The Names,
Joyce Sims,
the Bar-Kays,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rites of Spring,
the Human League,
Country Teasers,
Depeche Mode,
The Sonics,
The Move,
X-101,
Barclay James Harvest,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flash Fearless,
Sight & Sound,
New Order,
Das Ding,
Fad Gadget,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.