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 Belgium and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin 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 Moebius to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joe Smooth,
Rosa Yemen,
The Alarm Clocks,
Trumans Water,
Bill Wells,
Roxette,
Blancmange,
Y Pants,
Moss Icon,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Main Source,
Soft Machine,
Circle Jerks,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kayak,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mark Hollis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tomorrow,
Adolescents,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fela Kuti,
Guru Guru,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Index,
the Bar-Kays,
This Heat,
Magazine,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Duran Duran,
A Certain Ratio,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pierre Henry,
Dual Sessions,
Livin' Joy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Severed Heads,
Bauhaus,
Rekid,
Scan 7,
Skaos,
Marc Almond,
Visage,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Byrd,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.