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 Iceland and from Copenhagen.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Make Up to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
New York Dolls,
Jerry's Kids,
Aloha Tigers,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nirvana,
EPMD,
Marmalade,
Sparks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fortunes,
K-Klass,
Sällskapet,
Ossler,
Talk Talk,
David Bowie,
Faraquet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Magma,
The Buckinghams,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Starr,
The Misunderstood,
The Move,
The Moody Blues,
Unwound,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Adolescents,
Warsaw,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eddi Front,
Roxette,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cramps,
Aaron Thompson,
Malaria!,
Ohio Players,
Suburban Knight,
Popol Vuh,
The Monochrome Set,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Byrd,
Boogie Down Productions,
Swell Maps,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Vogues,
Anthony Braxton,
The Stooges,
Lower 48,
a-ha,
Freddie Wadling,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.