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 Thailand and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Detroit Cobras to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Average White Band,
Eli Mardock,
Boredoms,
Arab on Radar,
Sonic Youth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visage,
The Stooges,
The Angels of Light,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Magma,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sandy B,
Johnny Osbourne,
Panda Bear,
New Order,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pere Ubu,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Christie,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Babytalk,
Mantronix,
Flamin' Groovies,
Reagan Youth,
Harry Pussy,
Con Funk Shun,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ten City,
Rufus Thomas,
Half Japanese,
Swell Maps,
Amon Düül,
FM Einheit,
Q65,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Nas,
Sister Nancy,
Kas Product,
Excepter,
Tomorrow,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Sheep,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
The Monks,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Marine Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kenny Larkin,
Whodini,
Davy DMX,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.