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 Nepal 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Detroit Cobras to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Agitation Free,
The Stooges,
La Düsseldorf,
The Victims,
Charles Mingus,
The Names,
Slave,
Maleditus Sound,
Lakeside,
E-Dancer,
Aural Exciters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
China Crisis,
Zero Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Duran Duran,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sandy B,
Soulsonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
Grauzone,
Pantaleimon,
Maurizio,
Fad Gadget,
Negative Approach,
The Golliwogs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Thee Headcoats,
June of 44,
Blancmange,
T.S.O.L.,
Youth Brigade,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Sneak,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moody Blues,
Man Eating Sloth,
Deepchord,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sonics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Connie Case,
Freddie Wadling,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marine Girls,
UT,
PIL,
Todd Terry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Normal,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
The Wake,
Talk Talk,
Wally Richardson,
Funky Four + One,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cure,
Minor Threat,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.