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 Laos and from Columbus.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mars to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
OOIOO,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sugar Minott,
U.S. Maple,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
Todd Rundgren,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Clear Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harmonia,
Second Layer,
Faraquet,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Bobby Sherman,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harpers Bizarre,
K-Klass,
Bootsy Collins,
Fluxion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Swell Maps,
Joensuu 1685,
Groovy Waters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slick Rick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brand Nubian,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez,
PIL,
The Invisible,
Hashim,
Jeff Lynne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scrapy,
Roxy Music,
Anthony Braxton,
Rosa Yemen,
Tears for Fears,
Mark Hollis,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
The Tremeloes,
Cymande,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
JFA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Rakim,
DJ Style,
Donald Byrd,
Siglo XX,
Mars,
Gong,
Ken Boothe,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.