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 Macedonia and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Josef K to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Kenny Larkin,
The Velvet Underground,
The Associates,
Piero Umiliani,
Hasil Adkins,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Sherman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Normal,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Beau Brummels,
Donald Byrd,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tomorrow,
The Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Patti Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
F. McDonald,
Cameo,
The Fugs,
The Human League,
Swans,
The Sound,
Al Stewart,
Roxette,
Yusef Lateef,
Easy Going,
Yellowson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonic Youth,
Don Cherry,
Bob Dylan,
The Five Americans,
Kerrie Biddell,
OOIOO,
Cymande,
ABC,
The Fire Engines,
One Last Wish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joey Negro,
Mad Mike,
Aloha Tigers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joe Smooth,
Minny Pops,
Babytalk,
Oblivians,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Skriet,
Funkadelic,
John Coltrane,
Smog,
Cal Tjader,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.