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 Peru and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 The Litter to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
The Cowsills,
Youth Brigade,
Sarah Menescal,
Echospace,
Outsiders,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Shuggie Otis,
Tubeway Army,
Amon Düül,
Organ,
Drive Like Jehu,
Matthew Halsall,
the Normal,
the Swans,
ABC,
Dave Gahan,
Harry Pussy,
Agent Orange,
Erykah Badu,
Graham Central Station,
The Dead C,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Althea and Donna,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hoover,
Los Fastidios,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Scott Walker,
The Seeds,
Quando Quango,
CMW,
John Lydon,
Gichy Dan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Minnie Riperton,
Rotary Connection,
Susan Cadogan,
Rakim,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bad Manners,
The Dave Clark Five,
Khruangbin,
One Last Wish,
Monolake,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pussy Galore,
Nick Fraelich,
Jandek,
Deakin,
The Black Dice,
Don Cherry,
Peter and Kerry,
Lebanon Hanover,
kango's stein massive,
Curtis Mayfield,
Make Up,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.