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 Liberia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Quadrant to the punk 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Ronnie Foster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Arab on Radar,
Rapeman,
The Selecter,
The Beau Brummels,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grey Daturas,
Oblivians,
Alton Ellis,
Pole,
Nick Fraelich,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Funkadelic,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ultra Naté,
Silicon Teens,
The Busters,
K-Klass,
Saccharine Trust,
John Holt,
Scion,
New Age Steppers,
The Fall,
Grauzone,
Stereo Dub,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drexciya,
The Index,
Erykah Badu,
Dave Gahan,
Technova,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
China Crisis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eurythmics,
Dennis Brown,
Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skarface,
Theoretical Girls,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
Sex Pistols,
Beasts of Bourbon,
U.S. Maple,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
D'Angelo,
Ituana,
Kayak,
Intrusion,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
The United States of America,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.