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 Slovakia and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lebanon Hanover to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Slave,
David Axelrod,
Crime,
Parry Music,
The Young Rascals,
Wasted Youth,
Cybotron,
Ice-T,
Hoover,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Trojans,
Excepter,
The Associates,
Todd Terry,
The Tremeloes,
Tears for Fears,
Procol Harum,
Skriet,
Josef K,
Mars,
The Detroit Cobras,
Slick Rick,
the Soft Cell,
Make Up,
Delon & Dalcan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Sonics,
The Dirtbombs,
Nirvana,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Main Source,
The Cowsills,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Index,
Sugar Minott,
Con Funk Shun,
Peter & Gordon,
New Order,
Bill Near,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sun Ra,
Pagans,
Oblivians,
Quadrant,
China Crisis,
Alton Ellis,
Yellowson,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
Zero Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jacques Brel,
Pet Shop Boys,
H. Thieme,
Nico,
Panda Bear,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.