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 Korea North 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Schoolly D to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Make Up,
Barclay James Harvest,
Isaac Hayes,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
Half Japanese,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bill Wells,
The Tremeloes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Evens,
Inner City,
Cymande,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ponytail,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yazoo,
John Foxx,
Godley & Creme,
OOIOO,
Sam Rivers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deakin,
The Grass Roots,
Joyce Sims,
Stiv Bators,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fela Kuti,
The Real Kids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
Curtis Mayfield,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Newcleus,
The Count Five,
The Raincoats,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Little Man,
Ornette Coleman,
D'Angelo,
Depeche Mode,
The Cowsills,
Lyres,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
PIL,
Q65,
Bobby Womack,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sight & Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Zapp,
The Beau Brummels,
Organ,
The Walker Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
The Searchers,
L. Decosne,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.