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 Bremen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the snare 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 Kerrie Biddell to the dance 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Gap Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Essential Logic,
Erasure,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Byrd,
The Last Poets,
Oneida,
the Germs,
L. Decosne,
The Modern Lovers,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Young Rascals,
The United States of America,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bang On A Can,
Nirvana,
The Buckinghams,
Sam Rivers,
Judy Mowatt,
Yaz,
Neu!,
Siglo XX,
Maurizio,
Sparks,
Black Moon,
Derrick May,
David Bowie,
DJ Sneak,
Peter & Gordon,
Television Personalities,
Inner City,
E-Dancer,
Oblivians,
Sugar Minott,
Hardrive,
the Sonics,
Cybotron,
The Evens,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Style,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
Scratch Acid,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fall,
Intrusion,
The Gories,
Yazoo,
Q65,
World's Most,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.