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 Uruguay and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Litter to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oneida,
Aloha Tigers,
Scratch Acid,
Easy Going,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Skatalites,
Lalann,
Kenny Larkin,
Hardrive,
Chris & Cosey,
The Searchers,
Fela Kuti,
Japan,
Minor Threat,
Vladislav Delay,
Rotary Connection,
Brand Nubian,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Simply Red,
Adolescents,
Visage,
the Bar-Kays,
Dave Gahan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Archie Shepp,
Alice Coltrane,
Bush Tetras,
Reuben Wilson,
Freddie Wadling,
Soulsonic Force,
Arab on Radar,
Inner City,
JFA,
Popol Vuh,
Tom Boy,
U.S. Maple,
John Foxx,
Joe Smooth,
Nils Olav,
Saccharine Trust,
kango's stein massive,
Grauzone,
Fluxion,
Sun Ra,
Warsaw,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hot Snakes,
The Offenders,
cv313,
Metal Thangz,
Guru Guru,
Silicon Teens,
CMW,
Bobby Sherman,
Marmalade,
The Slits,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.