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 Egypt and from Johannesburg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord 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 Agent Orange to the electroclash 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eli Mardock,
Flash Fearless,
ABBA,
The Stooges,
Echospace,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Youth Brigade,
Dennis Brown,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doors,
John Holt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Circle Jerks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Motorama,
Faraquet,
JFA,
Todd Rundgren,
Faust,
F. McDonald,
Quadrant,
Gang of Four,
Amazonics,
Roy Ayers,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Guru Guru,
Mantronix,
Tommy Roe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Human League,
Joyce Sims,
Hardrive,
The Monochrome Set,
Rosa Yemen,
Albert Ayler,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Newcleus,
Neu!,
Massinfluence,
The Shadows of Knight,
Slave,
Absolute Body Control,
Depeche Mode,
Anthony Braxton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry's Kids,
Sight & Sound,
Camouflage,
World's Most,
Marvin Gaye,
Susan Cadogan,
The Count Five,
AZ,
The Saints,
The Fuzztones,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.