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 Greece and from Edmonton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Happenings to the jazz 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ludus,
Groovy Waters,
Morten Harket,
The Velvet Underground,
Johnny Clarke,
Maleditus Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Banda Bassotti,
The Raincoats,
PIL,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Whodini,
Can,
The Dead C,
Lucky Dragons,
Lalann,
Amon Düül,
Slick Rick,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pylon,
Lower 48,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Au Pairs,
Isaac Hayes,
Talk Talk,
Charles Mingus,
Sandy B,
Terry Callier,
The Moleskins,
FM Einheit,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dark Day,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Walker Brothers,
Nas,
Soft Cell,
Reuben Wilson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
James White and The Blacks,
Rufus Thomas,
The Selecter,
Wings,
Outsiders,
Malaria!,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick Morgan,
The Residents,
Warren Ellis,
The Smoke,
Sex Pistols,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skarface,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.