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 Mali and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moby Grape to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultimate Spinach,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
10cc,
Soul II Soul,
Rites of Spring,
Vladislav Delay,
Ultravox,
Marine Girls,
R.M.O.,
Michelle Simonal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joy Division,
Unwound,
Sixth Finger,
Black Moon,
The Associates,
Josef K,
F. McDonald,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Reagan Youth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Adolescents,
Charles Mingus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ponytail,
Mo-Dettes,
T. Rex,
UT,
Radiohead,
Kayak,
Howard Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
The Vogues,
Infiniti,
Cluster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hasil Adkins,
The Happenings,
the Fania All-Stars,
X-102,
Main Source,
Flipper,
Section 25,
The Litter,
PIL,
The Cure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Barracudas,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bill Wells,
Audionom,
The Music Machine,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erasure,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.