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 the UAE and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
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 mellotron 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 Unrelated Segments to the electroclash 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Monks,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
La Düsseldorf,
Eurythmics,
The Fire Engines,
Lower 48,
Ohio Players,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
ABBA,
Yusef Lateef,
Ten City,
the Normal,
The Modern Lovers,
Symarip,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fall,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boogie Down Productions,
Guru Guru,
Dave Gahan,
Sonic Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
X-Ray Spex,
Zapp,
The Wake,
Lalann,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
Unwound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Blues Magoos,
Hoover,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Leonard Cohen,
Crash Course in Science,
The Invisible,
Crime,
Matthew Bourne,
Tubeway Army,
Silicon Teens,
Bootsy Collins,
Royal Trux,
Marc Almond,
Avey Tare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
Toni Rubio,
Eli Mardock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Technova,
Schoolly D,
Sixth Finger,
The Names,
Delta 5,
Groovy Waters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eden Ahbez,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.