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 Mexico and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin 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 Talk Talk to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Chris Corsano,
B.T. Express,
David Bowie,
The Tremeloes,
Danielle Patucci,
Barry Ungar,
The Gap Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yaz,
Aswad,
Anakelly,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joyce Sims,
Steve Hackett,
Connie Case,
The Monochrome Set,
Yellowson,
Glenn Branca,
PIL,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
The Busters,
Brass Construction,
Second Layer,
Index,
The Skatalites,
Avey Tare,
Magazine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Crooked Eye,
Hardrive,
June of 44,
Qualms,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Juan Atkins,
Sällskapet,
The Motions,
Harmonia,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Newcleus,
Technova,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lungfish,
The Buckinghams,
Lee Hazlewood,
Derrick Morgan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jawbox,
Banda Bassotti,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.