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 Bahrain and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Derrick Morgan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Alphaville,
The Angels of Light,
Joe Finger,
Morten Harket,
Moss Icon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barrington Levy,
Visage,
ABBA,
Suburban Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Warsaw,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
Nik Kershaw,
The Seeds,
The Moleskins,
Big Daddy Kane,
a-ha,
Trumans Water,
Magma,
The Busters,
Mantronix,
FM Einheit,
U.S. Maple,
Shoche,
Goldenarms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fire Engines,
Agitation Free,
John Lydon,
Television Personalities,
The Knickerbockers,
Crash Course in Science,
Throbbing Gristle,
Los Fastidios,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cecil Taylor,
Grandmaster Flash,
Don Cherry,
Man Parrish,
the Slits,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yusef Lateef,
China Crisis,
Peter and Kerry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pantytec,
Warren Ellis,
Urselle,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jeff Lynne,
Barbara Tucker,
The Electric Prunes,
Niagra,
These Immortal Souls,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.