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 India and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gladiators to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Quantec,
Trumans Water,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warren Ellis,
Basic Channel,
Television Personalities,
Television,
Barbara Tucker,
EPMD,
MDC,
Funkadelic,
Dave Gahan,
Minnie Riperton,
Franke,
D'Angelo,
Iggy Pop,
Cecil Taylor,
The Smiths,
Unrelated Segments,
Drexciya,
The Red Krayola,
Arthur Verocai,
Cybotron,
The Dead C,
Swans,
The Moleskins,
Roxette,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Hood,
Half Japanese,
The Young Rascals,
Crime,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harmonia,
Eden Ahbez,
Pantaleimon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
David Bowie,
Lyres,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flamin' Groovies,
This Heat,
the Human League,
Scott Walker,
Bob Dylan,
The J.B.'s,
Carl Craig,
Marmalade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DJ Sneak,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maurizio,
Silicon Teens,
Quando Quango,
Brand Nubian,
Fat Boys,
Mandrill,
Lindisfarne,
In Retrospect,
a-ha,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.