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 Kuwait 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 David Bowie 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 Model 500 to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Can,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Byrd,
Barclay James Harvest,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mark Hollis,
Eric Copeland,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David McCallum,
The Wake,
Absolute Body Control,
Joy Division,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tres Demented,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sonics,
the Slits,
The Electric Prunes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Hutcherson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Animal Collective,
John Cale,
Neu!,
Depeche Mode,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fugs,
Kurtis Blow,
Camberwell Now,
Leonard Cohen,
Nils Olav,
Underground Resistance,
Godley & Creme,
Arthur Verocai,
The Blackbyrds,
Ornette Coleman,
Lungfish,
Scott Walker,
Suicide,
The Music Machine,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ludus,
Gichy Dan,
John Coltrane,
Moebius,
10cc,
Loose Ends,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fortunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
DJ Sneak,
The Detroit Cobras,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.