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 Cyprus and from Woodstock.
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 Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ponytail to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Sonics,
The Human League,
Aloha Tigers,
Fugazi,
The Walker Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Mark Hollis,
The Buckinghams,
Crooked Eye,
Fluxion,
Barbara Tucker,
The Smiths,
The Busters,
The Angels of Light,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Count Five,
The Trojans,
Matthew Halsall,
Surgeon,
Peter and Kerry,
Procol Harum,
Wings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eden Ahbez,
Fad Gadget,
The Detroit Cobras,
Au Pairs,
Brand Nubian,
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Style,
Ronan,
B.T. Express,
EPMD,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bauhaus,
ABC,
Buzzcocks,
Duran Duran,
Steve Hackett,
The Neon Judgement,
Nico,
Fela Kuti,
Pere Ubu,
Faraquet,
Yazoo,
John Lydon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Andrew Hill,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Eurythmics,
Mandrill,
Cal Tjader,
The Seeds,
Japan,
The Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.