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 Sudan and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the rock 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Warren Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
Brass Construction,
the Human League,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythm & Sound,
June Days,
Agitation Free,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wings,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Faraquet,
Bobby Womack,
Thee Headcoats,
Suicide,
Harmonia,
The Fugs,
AZ,
Ultimate Spinach,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Dead C,
Panda Bear,
Saccharine Trust,
the Swans,
Organ,
These Immortal Souls,
Swans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Severed Heads,
Monolake,
Tommy Roe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
U.S. Maple,
Oblivians,
The Techniques,
Anakelly,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fugazi,
The Sound,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smoke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bluetip,
Fad Gadget,
Con Funk Shun,
Dave Gahan,
Thompson Twins,
Derrick Morgan,
the Soft Cell,
Alphaville,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.