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 Sierra Leone and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Glenn Branca to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Mr. Review,
Susan Cadogan,
Matthew Halsall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mission of Burma,
Wolf Eyes,
The Raincoats,
Anakelly,
Connie Case,
Visage,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
The Red Krayola,
Soulsonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
A Certain Ratio,
the Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Michelle Simonal,
The Modern Lovers,
Scientists,
Alphaville,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bob Dylan,
Fluxion,
Cal Tjader,
The Gories,
The Music Machine,
Joyce Sims,
Reagan Youth,
Brand Nubian,
Fifty Foot Hose,
CMW,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Eden Ahbez,
James White and The Blacks,
Bobby Sherman,
Tubeway Army,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nik Kershaw,
Intrusion,
The Fire Engines,
Wasted Youth,
Nico,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yazoo,
Slave,
Boz Scaggs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sight & Sound,
Loose Ends,
The Monochrome Set,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.