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 Zambia and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sisters of Mercy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Royal Trux,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Motions,
the Slits,
Half Japanese,
Rufus Thomas,
Neu!,
Dawn Penn,
Vladislav Delay,
T. Rex,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
Gang Green,
Ten City,
Agent Orange,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Japan,
Chris Corsano,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Judy Mowatt,
Circle Jerks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
Warsaw,
Amon Düül,
Peter & Gordon,
Moby Grape,
Kurtis Blow,
Fad Gadget,
Amon Düül II,
Sight & Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Albert Ayler,
The Tremeloes,
John Lydon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Happenings,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
MDC,
Kerrie Biddell,
KRS-One,
In Retrospect,
Brothers Johnson,
Al Stewart,
Byron Stingily,
Skriet,
New York Dolls,
Suburban Knight,
the Bar-Kays,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dead C,
Tubeway Army,
Bauhaus,
Sister Nancy,
Brand Nubian,
Tears for Fears,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.