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 China and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Alarm Clocks,
Morten Harket,
Trumans Water,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television Personalities,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yellowson,
Marine Girls,
Blossom Toes,
Technova,
Buzzcocks,
Oblivians,
Steve Hackett,
Unwound,
Cheater Slicks,
Los Fastidios,
Eric Copeland,
These Immortal Souls,
cv313,
Neil Young,
The Slackers,
World's Most,
Scratch Acid,
Barrington Levy,
The Monochrome Set,
Bluetip,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Barracudas,
X-101,
Ronnie Foster,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Little Man,
Pussy Galore,
The Human League,
Wire,
Fatback Band,
Siglo XX,
Newcleus,
Ronan,
Aloha Tigers,
David McCallum,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tommy Roe,
The Real Kids,
Erykah Badu,
Judy Mowatt,
Minny Pops,
Robert Görl,
Brass Construction,
John Coltrane,
The Blues Magoos,
Gastr Del Sol,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Sherman,
Yazoo,
Ultra Naté,
Kurtis Blow,
the Human League,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.