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 Uganda and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cymande to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Outsiders,
The Techniques,
Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fluxion,
Marmalade,
New Age Steppers,
Sixth Finger,
Technova,
Thompson Twins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Liliput,
X-Ray Spex,
Pole,
Tears for Fears,
Eurythmics,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Livin' Joy,
The Busters,
Average White Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marshall Jefferson,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed,
The Standells,
Lalann,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Al Stewart,
Patti Smith,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
This Heat,
Thee Headcoats,
Au Pairs,
Blossom Toes,
Malaria!,
Youth Brigade,
Barclay James Harvest,
Newcleus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Piero Umiliani,
Crooked Eye,
Warren Ellis,
F. McDonald,
the Human League,
Radiopuhelimet,
Negative Approach,
Bauhaus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tres Demented,
Roger Hodgson,
Reuben Wilson,
Pierre Henry,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.