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 Singapore and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chocolate Watch Band 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
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,
Clear Light,
Black Flag,
Davy DMX,
DJ Style,
The Sound,
Whodini,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sam Rivers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Youth Brigade,
Chris Corsano,
The Leaves,
Nico,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rites of Spring,
The Vogues,
Warsaw,
Unwound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jacques Brel,
The Gories,
The Zeros,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
8 Eyed Spy,
Agitation Free,
Fugazi,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Byrd,
Joensuu 1685,
Wasted Youth,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ten City,
Mr. Review,
The Moody Blues,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Reagan Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Five Americans,
Deadbeat,
Ultra Naté,
Negative Approach,
Suicide,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nirvana,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kerri Chandler,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Marine Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Metal Thangz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.