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 Morocco and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Delta 5 to the techno 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Organ,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
New Order,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Ponytail,
Minnie Riperton,
Albert Ayler,
Khruangbin,
Alphaville,
The Grass Roots,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Y Pants,
Icehouse,
The Saints,
Bad Manners,
Camberwell Now,
Rod Modell,
Q65,
Au Pairs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Gabor Szabo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Christie,
The Index,
Agitation Free,
Amazonics,
Carl Craig,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Make Up,
Jeff Lynne,
Isaac Hayes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barry Ungar,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Average White Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
X-101,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roger Hodgson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Velvet Underground,
Monolake,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Names,
CMW,
Nirvana,
Joe Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
Scan 7,
Laurel Aitken,
Blake Baxter,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
The Cramps,
Quadrant,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.