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 Antigua 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Intrusion to the grime 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Jandek,
DJ Sneak,
Faust,
Bootsy Collins,
The Evens,
Rekid,
Public Enemy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Little Man,
Derrick Morgan,
Eve St. Jones,
The Happenings,
Bauhaus,
Negative Approach,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
Slave,
LL Cool J,
Ten City,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dennis Brown,
Donny Hathaway,
Sister Nancy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Scrapy,
Ronan,
Delta 5,
Index,
Average White Band,
The Move,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Altered Images,
Popol Vuh,
Audionom,
The Wake,
The Motions,
Stetsasonic,
Urselle,
The Cosmic Jokers,
MDC,
Mo-Dettes,
Josef K,
MC5,
Loose Ends,
Zapp,
the Human League,
The Last Poets,
Procol Harum,
PIL,
The Dead C,
Country Teasers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Bananas,
John Lydon,
Gong,
Guru Guru,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.