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 Uruguay and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Pagans,
Quantec,
Dennis Brown,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultimate Spinach,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
Hardrive,
H. Thieme,
Max Romeo,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed,
Half Japanese,
Porter Ricks,
Smog,
Terry Callier,
DJ Style,
Severed Heads,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fela Kuti,
Magma,
Unrelated Segments,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Wells,
Make Up,
The Cramps,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Sherman,
The Stooges,
Unwound,
John Coltrane,
Oneida,
The Count Five,
Moss Icon,
Jacob Miller,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cure,
Banda Bassotti,
Parry Music,
Blancmange,
Duran Duran,
Massinfluence,
The Vogues,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Intrusion,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dawn Penn,
Nas,
Youth Brigade,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.