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 Barbados and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soft Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wings,
Mantronix,
Scratch Acid,
Popol Vuh,
Monolake,
Andrew Hill,
Aaron Thompson,
Zero Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Section 25,
Nick Fraelich,
Minor Threat,
Scientists,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gun Club,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Swell Maps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris & Cosey,
X-101,
Prince Buster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David Axelrod,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cecil Taylor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Star Department,
Hoover,
Mandrill,
Dark Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Rotary Connection,
Glenn Branca,
K-Klass,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soft Machine,
The Fugs,
The Techniques,
Amon Düül II,
Clear Light,
These Immortal Souls,
Y Pants,
Moby Grape,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
Glambeats Corp.,
Agent Orange,
The Smiths,
DNA,
Tom Boy,
The Selecter,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cowsills,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blackbyrds,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.