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 Ecuador and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes 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 Ultra Naté to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Outsiders,
The Leaves,
The Divine Comedy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Derrick May,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Associates,
La Düsseldorf,
Leonard Cohen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Lightning Bolt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gichy Dan,
Average White Band,
Juan Atkins,
The Buckinghams,
The Fall,
Lee Hazlewood,
Q and Not U,
the Human League,
Cheater Slicks,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sonics,
The Cure,
The Music Machine,
Wings,
Gang of Four,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Neon Judgement,
The Star Department,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mars,
Terry Callier,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Tremeloes,
Theoretical Girls,
Carl Craig,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Deakin,
X-Ray Spex,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Pus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
MC5,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Suicide,
Technova,
Marcia Griffiths,
Siglo XX,
Fluxion,
the Swans,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.