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 Angola and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 David Bowie 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Mr. Review,
Zero Boys,
Traffic Nightmare,
Simply Red,
Marine Girls,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
Supertramp,
Index,
Infiniti,
Bang On A Can,
Visage,
Eurythmics,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Motions,
Moby Grape,
Main Source,
L. Decosne,
China Crisis,
This Heat,
the Slits,
Interpol,
The Residents,
The Barracudas,
Pantaleimon,
Depeche Mode,
Mandrill,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dawn Penn,
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Los Fastidios,
Chrome,
Blossom Toes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sugar Minott,
Suburban Knight,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nick Fraelich,
Au Pairs,
Urselle,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Laurel Aitken,
The Durutti Column,
Bluetip,
The Evens,
The Beau Brummels,
Jandek,
Monolake,
The Sonics,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Kayak,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.