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 Korea South and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Arcadia to the rock 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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Lakeside,
Kayak,
The Star Department,
David McCallum,
Tubeway Army,
Hot Snakes,
Eli Mardock,
Marine Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Wire,
Yaz,
Skaos,
Kenny Larkin,
Public Enemy,
the Slits,
Davy DMX,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Q and Not U,
Judy Mowatt,
Amon Düül II,
Soulsonic Force,
Moby Grape,
Kerri Chandler,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fad Gadget,
Lalann,
Suicide,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
The Doobie Brothers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pole,
Ice-T,
Pagans,
Livin' Joy,
The Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DJ Sneak,
ABC,
Yellowson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
a-ha,
UT,
Mission of Burma,
The Saints,
Dave Gahan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.