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 Denmark and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin 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 Derrick Morgan to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Isaac Hayes,
Wings,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Index,
Aswad,
Easy Going,
Peter & Gordon,
Faraquet,
The Invisible,
Freddie Wadling,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blossom Toes,
Eve St. Jones,
Saccharine Trust,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minor Threat,
Oblivians,
Althea and Donna,
Masters at Work,
The Martian,
The Saints,
Laurel Aitken,
The Velvet Underground,
The Star Department,
Marvin Gaye,
Maurizio,
Groovy Waters,
Roxette,
Black Bananas,
Bob Dylan,
Eric Dolphy,
Cameo,
Gregory Isaacs,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brand Nubian,
The Cramps,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chrome,
Gabor Szabo,
Aaron Thompson,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Hill,
Cal Tjader,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Sonics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hardrive,
Piero Umiliani,
Marine Girls,
Fluxion,
kango's stein massive,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Wolf Eyes,
Banda Bassotti,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.