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 Nauru and from London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Trumans Water to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Von Mondo,
Oblivians,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bauhaus,
Suicide,
Faraquet,
Pere Ubu,
cv313,
Scott Walker,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
Royal Trux,
The Kinks,
kango's stein massive,
Gabor Szabo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Agitation Free,
Livin' Joy,
Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Style,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cluster,
FM Einheit,
Man Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aloha Tigers,
Laurel Aitken,
The Names,
Joe Smooth,
The Slackers,
Don Cherry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eddi Front,
ABC,
Eden Ahbez,
Anthony Braxton,
Ice-T,
Swell Maps,
Junior Murvin,
Intrusion,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mojo Men,
Joensuu 1685,
Television,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Das Ding,
A Certain Ratio,
Alison Limerick,
Joyce Sims,
The United States of America,
Davy DMX,
Spoonie Gee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DJ Sneak,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.