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 South Africa and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 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 the Soft Cell to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Avey Tare,
Porter Ricks,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Rundgren,
Babytalk,
Swans,
Q and Not U,
Wings,
The Index,
Lou Christie,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Simply Red,
The Doobie Brothers,
Oblivians,
Talk Talk,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang Starr,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funkadelic,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra,
Chrome,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Brand Nubian,
Agent Orange,
Amon Düül II,
Judy Mowatt,
Section 25,
Urselle,
Metal Thangz,
Stiv Bators,
kango's stein massive,
Rites of Spring,
Black Pus,
The American Breed,
Alphaville,
James White and The Blacks,
Stockholm Monsters,
MDC,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aswad,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spandau Ballet,
Faraquet,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
The Gories,
Tom Boy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ludus,
EPMD,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
10cc,
Rekid,
John Foxx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Walker Brothers,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.