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 Taiwan and from Taipei.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 CMW to the jazz 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Scrapy,
Moss Icon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Can,
Thee Headcoats,
Howard Jones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Wyatt,
Crash Course in Science,
Yellowson,
The Fall,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Severed Heads,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kayak,
MDC,
The Raincoats,
Arab on Radar,
Stiv Bators,
Soft Machine,
Moby Grape,
Television Personalities,
Ultimate Spinach,
Au Pairs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Japan,
Peter and Kerry,
Motorama,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Model 500,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tears for Fears,
Dave Gahan,
The Techniques,
Donny Hathaway,
Amazonics,
The Doors,
Lou Reed,
Barbara Tucker,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mad Mike,
The Pretty Things,
John Cale,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cluster,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Skatalites,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lebanon Hanover,
One Last Wish,
Cal Tjader,
Guru Guru,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.