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 Ethiopia and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men 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?
Faraquet,
The Toasters,
Rites of Spring,
The Mighty Diamonds,
New Order,
Camberwell Now,
Massinfluence,
Pantaleimon,
Maleditus Sound,
Blossom Toes,
Television Personalities,
Marc Almond,
Hardrive,
DJ Style,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Detroit Cobras,
FM Einheit,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gun Club,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thee Headcoats,
Junior Murvin,
Panda Bear,
ABC,
ABBA,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
Model 500,
Robert Görl,
Morten Harket,
Von Mondo,
Barbara Tucker,
Technova,
Grey Daturas,
The Fire Engines,
Gong,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeff Mills,
X-102,
Piero Umiliani,
Marine Girls,
MC5,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Normal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Royal Trux,
Joe Smooth,
Absolute Body Control,
Lakeside,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Starr,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Silicon Teens,
Bush Tetras,
Brick,
Organ,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.