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 Costa Rica and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Gichy Dan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
The Electric Prunes,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers,
Dawn Penn,
Los Fastidios,
Basic Channel,
Darondo,
Skriet,
Can,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Isaac Hayes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Accadde A,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fat Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Saints,
Hasil Adkins,
Alton Ellis,
Crooked Eye,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bill Near,
Bobby Womack,
Stetsasonic,
Pantaleimon,
Gang of Four,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alison Limerick,
Heaven 17,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
Bobby Sherman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Audionom,
Prince Buster,
Eden Ahbez,
Stiv Bators,
Kenny Larkin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Connie Case,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Harpers Bizarre,
Niagra,
Theoretical Girls,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mars,
Byron Stingily,
Johnny Osbourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Silicon Teens,
Boz Scaggs,
Negative Approach,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.