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 Suriname and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Nils Olav to the funk 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Nick Fraelich,
Oneida,
Schoolly D,
Unrelated Segments,
the Human League,
Barry Ungar,
Ultravox,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
China Crisis,
Japan,
Roy Ayers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Au Pairs,
Terry Callier,
Eric B and Rakim,
Arthur Verocai,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Liliput,
R.M.O.,
Bang On A Can,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Hood,
The Fugs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fear,
Aswad,
The Black Dice,
Lungfish,
Deakin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Oblivians,
Michelle Simonal,
Con Funk Shun,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sparks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ornette Coleman,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going,
Tropical Tobacco,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Golliwogs,
Soft Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Bananas,
Tomorrow,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
The Pop Group,
Todd Rundgren,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drexciya,
Black Pus,
Scion,
Sun City Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.