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 Tunisia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the grime 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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minnie Riperton,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
Von Mondo,
Blancmange,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Sherman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skaos,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cybotron,
Warsaw,
The Standells,
Supertramp,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Fugazi,
Make Up,
Fad Gadget,
Gil Scott Heron,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bronski Beat,
EPMD,
Jeff Lynne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Glenn Branca,
Pere Ubu,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aaron Thompson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scott Walker,
Robert Wyatt,
The Litter,
Gichy Dan,
Grauzone,
Cameo,
Howard Jones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Oneida,
The Techniques,
Cecil Taylor,
Tropical Tobacco,
Susan Cadogan,
Yazoo,
X-Ray Spex,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Offenders,
Radiohead,
The Pop Group,
Gang of Four,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unwound,
Donny Hathaway,
New York Dolls,
Altered Images,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.