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 Korea South and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moody Blues 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Rosa Yemen,
The Move,
Drexciya,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sun City Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doors,
Groovy Waters,
The Standells,
The Associates,
Steve Hackett,
Roxy Music,
Rekid,
Reuben Wilson,
Yazoo,
Bobby Womack,
Cecil Taylor,
Monks,
Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
The Slits,
Patti Smith,
Crooked Eye,
Delta 5,
Surgeon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roy Ayers,
Rakim,
Dawn Penn,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Erasure,
the Bar-Kays,
Chrome,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
Shoche,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The United States of America,
Ultravox,
The Misunderstood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Dolphy,
Animal Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Velvet Underground,
Crispy Ambulance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fad Gadget,
cv313,
Angry Samoans,
Robert Görl,
Procol Harum,
Donald Byrd,
Freddie Wadling,
Supertramp,
Goldenarms,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.