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 Guinea and from Bremen.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 the Normal to the jazz 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Little Man,
John Coltrane,
The Busters,
Rufus Thomas,
Wire,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wings,
Delon & Dalcan,
June Days,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Underground Resistance,
Desert Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Inner City,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Intrusion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Circle Jerks,
Interpol,
The Pretty Things,
Brothers Johnson,
Stiv Bators,
The Real Kids,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moby Grape,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gong,
Delta 5,
Rosa Yemen,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pagans,
Von Mondo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Adolescents,
Marmalade,
ABBA,
The Fortunes,
The Selecter,
The Black Dice,
The Slackers,
Babytalk,
Pere Ubu,
Unrelated Segments,
Oneida,
Aloha Tigers,
Quantec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fatback Band,
Echospace,
June of 44,
Talk Talk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Invisible,
Magma,
Ossler,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.