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 Malawi and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Donald Byrd to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants 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?
Subhumans,
Glenn Branca,
The Mojo Men,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funkadelic,
Skriet,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grauzone,
Icehouse,
Harpers Bizarre,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kerri Chandler,
Rod Modell,
the Normal,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Last Poets,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
Smog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Agitation Free,
Zero Boys,
Kurtis Blow,
Flipper,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Reed,
Fad Gadget,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Skarface,
Barclay James Harvest,
kango's stein massive,
The Misunderstood,
Nirvana,
PIL,
Silicon Teens,
Tubeway Army,
Technova,
Brick,
the Slits,
The Index,
Slave,
Alton Ellis,
Cybotron,
Anakelly,
The Leaves,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bluetip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pagans,
Motorama,
EPMD,
Mr. Review,
Blossom Toes,
Cheater Slicks,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.