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 Syria and from Jakarta.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Oneida,
Rekid,
the Human League,
MC5,
The Litter,
Infiniti,
Gastr Del Sol,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
K-Klass,
Motorama,
X-102,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
The Sonics,
Franke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Excepter,
Warsaw,
Stetsasonic,
Connie Case,
Eric Dolphy,
Symarip,
JFA,
Agent Orange,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tropical Tobacco,
In Retrospect,
Johnny Clarke,
The Happenings,
The Fuzztones,
L. Decosne,
The Modern Lovers,
The Skatalites,
Con Funk Shun,
Throbbing Gristle,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
Marmalade,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sound Behaviour,
Panda Bear,
Cecil Taylor,
Brand Nubian,
EPMD,
Donald Byrd,
The Stooges,
Ken Boothe,
Ice-T,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gap Band,
China Crisis,
The Fall,
Shuggie Otis,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sister Nancy,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.