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 Chad and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ludus to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Babytalk,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Surgeon,
Hashim,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Unrelated Segments,
The Victims,
Davy DMX,
Mo-Dettes,
The Velvet Underground,
Roy Ayers,
The Remains,
Yellowson,
Alton Ellis,
Royal Trux,
Vladislav Delay,
The Human League,
PIL,
Ice-T,
Barclay James Harvest,
Stockholm Monsters,
L. Decosne,
Electric Prunes,
Maurizio,
The Divine Comedy,
Rekid,
Gang of Four,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-102,
Accadde A,
The New Christs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sister Nancy,
Black Sheep,
Bobby Sherman,
Mars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Byron Stingily,
Kevin Saunderson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Spandau Ballet,
Man Parrish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Malaria!,
ABBA,
The Monks,
Jandek,
The Slits,
The Five Americans,
Theoretical Girls,
Das Ding,
X-Ray Spex,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Main Source,
Roger Hodgson,
Interpol,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.