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 Lebanon 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe 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 Aswad to the grunge 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Joy Division,
Soft Machine,
Althea and Donna,
Mantronix,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-102,
Drexciya,
Rapeman,
In Retrospect,
Roger Hodgson,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tom Boy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
10cc,
Kayak,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minutemen,
Nik Kershaw,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Last Poets,
Morten Harket,
Wolf Eyes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Detroit Cobras,
Reuben Wilson,
Masters at Work,
Mad Mike,
Echospace,
Radiopuhelimet,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Association,
Thee Headcoats,
The Vogues,
Todd Terry,
Funkadelic,
Tim Buckley,
Angry Samoans,
Mr. Review,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alphaville,
Severed Heads,
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gichy Dan,
Icehouse,
Animal Collective,
Maleditus Sound,
Country Teasers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boredoms,
AZ,
Tomorrow,
The Alarm Clocks,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.