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 Tuvalu and from Accra.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 synthesizer 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 Massinfluence to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Gabor Szabo,
AZ,
New York Dolls,
K-Klass,
World's Most,
the Germs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glenn Branca,
Country Teasers,
The Gap Band,
DJ Sneak,
Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Cybotron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Das Ding,
Idris Muhammad,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Japan,
Sonic Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Thee Headcoats,
Arab on Radar,
Max Romeo,
Letta Mbulu,
Popol Vuh,
Magazine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
Pole,
Junior Murvin,
Rotary Connection,
Chris & Cosey,
Morten Harket,
Erykah Badu,
Wasted Youth,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scratch Acid,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacob Miller,
Urselle,
Moebius,
Eddi Front,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skriet,
Todd Rundgren,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Donald Byrd,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Qualms,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kas Product,
Yusef Lateef,
L. Decosne,
Tommy Roe,
The Cowsills,
Derrick May,
The Slits,
Reuben Wilson,
Moby Grape,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.