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 Liechtenstein 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brothers Johnson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Bang On A Can,
Cymande,
Warsaw,
The Standells,
The Gladiators,
Das Ding,
Quadrant,
The Durutti Column,
Boz Scaggs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ice-T,
Suicide,
Loose Ends,
The Barracudas,
Bobby Womack,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lalann,
The Searchers,
Simply Red,
Crash Course in Science,
Bad Manners,
Marshall Jefferson,
AZ,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Josef K,
Bush Tetras,
New Age Steppers,
Moss Icon,
Lou Reed,
Blancmange,
X-102,
Dark Day,
Gang Starr,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
June of 44,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cluster,
The Electric Prunes,
The Techniques,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dawn Penn,
The Slackers,
Soulsonic Force,
Pantytec,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Adolescents,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
LL Cool J,
Agitation Free,
Bill Near,
Bob Dylan,
The Evens,
the Bar-Kays,
DJ Style,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.