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 Japan and from Woodstock.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Althea and Donna to the rock 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Lungfish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wolf Eyes,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Womack,
Moebius,
the Human League,
The Selecter,
Alison Limerick,
Heaven 17,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Enemy,
Nik Kershaw,
Negative Approach,
The Sonics,
Clear Light,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Thompson Twins,
The Cramps,
Main Source,
Man Parrish,
Max Romeo,
Cecil Taylor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Motions,
KRS-One,
Kayak,
Ponytail,
La Düsseldorf,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wire,
Oblivians,
The Mojo Men,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
U.S. Maple,
Joey Negro,
Depeche Mode,
X-102,
Unwound,
Arab on Radar,
10cc,
Motorama,
Essential Logic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lightning Bolt,
The Last Poets,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Lynne,
The Invisible,
Tubeway Army,
Jacob Miller,
Chris & Cosey,
Brick,
Mo-Dettes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Slits,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.