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 Nicaragua and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Zeros to the disco 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blake Baxter,
Erykah Badu,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Teasers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gichy Dan,
One Last Wish,
The Electric Prunes,
Freddie Wadling,
Smog,
Howard Jones,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Slave,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Michelle Simonal,
The Selecter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Morten Harket,
Moebius,
The Velvet Underground,
Depeche Mode,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gories,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Yazoo,
Skaos,
The Blackbyrds,
Stiv Bators,
Rhythm & Sound,
Idris Muhammad,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nas,
Neil Young,
Cybotron,
The Slackers,
The Invisible,
Zero Boys,
Circle Jerks,
The Moody Blues,
Byron Stingily,
PIL,
Magma,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultra Naté,
Kas Product,
Crime,
The Victims,
Schoolly D,
MC5,
The Real Kids,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.