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 Kenya 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Toasters to the grime 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fuzztones,
Guru Guru,
Sparks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lower 48,
Can,
Ralphi Rosario,
K-Klass,
Ossler,
Eve St. Jones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
These Immortal Souls,
The United States of America,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heaven 17,
Goldenarms,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
The Vogues,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kaleidoscope,
John Lydon,
Rites of Spring,
Brick,
Darondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gun Club,
Trumans Water,
Groovy Waters,
Roger Hodgson,
The Slits,
Mo-Dettes,
The Monks,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Pussy Galore,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stereo Dub,
Japan,
KRS-One,
Clear Light,
Warren Ellis,
The Searchers,
Harmonia,
The Victims,
D'Angelo,
Stiv Bators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Con Funk Shun,
Faust,
Monks,
The Litter,
Bobby Sherman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.