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 France and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba 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 The J.B.'s 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang of Four,
The Happenings,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fear,
The Cure,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pagans,
Maleditus Sound,
Duran Duran,
Au Pairs,
Zapp,
The Neon Judgement,
Tears for Fears,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Durutti Column,
Symarip,
Idris Muhammad,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joyce Sims,
Kas Product,
Basic Channel,
Porter Ricks,
Donald Byrd,
The Index,
Faust,
The Moody Blues,
La Düsseldorf,
Angry Samoans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fatback Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Velvet Underground,
Roxette,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Soft Cell,
X-Ray Spex,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blancmange,
Yaz,
Lou Reed,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scientists,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Sheep,
Radiopuhelimet,
Con Funk Shun,
MC5,
AZ,
Prince Buster,
Sun Ra,
Camouflage,
Derrick Morgan,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.