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 Azerbaijan and from Lyon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 Knickerbockers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jacob Miller,
Guru Guru,
Amon Düül II,
U.S. Maple,
Scientists,
Eric Copeland,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
Liliput,
Silicon Teens,
T. Rex,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amazonics,
The Wake,
Traffic Nightmare,
Iggy Pop,
Animal Collective,
Qualms,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hoover,
Archie Shepp,
Ice-T,
Flamin' Groovies,
China Crisis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harmonia,
Joe Smooth,
Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Absolute Body Control,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Doors,
Marvin Gaye,
Idris Muhammad,
The Saints,
The Barracudas,
Ludus,
The Index,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sandy B,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grauzone,
The Black Dice,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cure,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gong,
MDC,
Accadde A,
Chris & Cosey,
Tommy Roe,
The Searchers,
Thompson Twins,
Whodini,
Visage,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.