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 Montenegro and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronnie Foster to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Quadrant,
Gong,
Swans,
The Gap Band,
Neil Young,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Moleskins,
Alphaville,
Danielle Patucci,
Don Cherry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Easy Going,
Von Mondo,
Index,
Lucky Dragons,
Jacob Miller,
Stetsasonic,
Y Pants,
Yaz,
Animal Collective,
Surgeon,
Fluxion,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Young Rascals,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Music Machine,
The Cramps,
Archie Shepp,
Altered Images,
The Neon Judgement,
Swell Maps,
Quantec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Sheep,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Star Department,
Black Flag,
Toni Rubio,
The Cure,
Chris Corsano,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rites of Spring,
Marc Almond,
Livin' Joy,
Cheater Slicks,
Roger Hodgson,
Subhumans,
Bang On A Can,
Michelle Simonal,
The Wake,
Guru Guru,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nick Fraelich,
Scratch Acid,
Grey Daturas,
Judy Mowatt,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.