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 Cyprus and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Arthur Verocai to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Todd Rundgren,
Steve Hackett,
Sam Rivers,
Bootsy Collins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
LL Cool J,
David Bowie,
Wire,
The Monochrome Set,
Fluxion,
Duran Duran,
a-ha,
Yazoo,
Juan Atkins,
Parry Music,
Arab on Radar,
Dual Sessions,
Skaos,
Half Japanese,
The Dead C,
Sugar Minott,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fugazi,
Skarface,
Letta Mbulu,
Pole,
Franke,
Ken Boothe,
The Vogues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June of 44,
Johnny Clarke,
Popol Vuh,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minny Pops,
Nico,
Reuben Wilson,
Sister Nancy,
Gang of Four,
Blake Baxter,
The Walker Brothers,
Sällskapet,
John Coltrane,
Symarip,
Zapp,
Moby Grape,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Country Teasers,
Michelle Simonal,
The Electric Prunes,
Terry Callier,
The Red Krayola,
Kool Moe Dee,
Goldenarms,
Ornette Coleman,
Eden Ahbez,
Average White Band,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.