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 Mexico and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Ten City to the disco 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Scan 7,
Roxette,
The Motions,
Television,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
KRS-One,
Steve Hackett,
Sparks,
Hasil Adkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Accadde A,
Royal Trux,
The United States of America,
Liliput,
Grauzone,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roy Ayers,
Los Fastidios,
Hardrive,
DJ Sneak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Warren Ellis,
Ituana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gabor Szabo,
Hashim,
The Star Department,
Das Ding,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Infiniti,
The Gun Club,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amazonics,
Minutemen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Todd Rundgren,
Public Enemy,
The Slackers,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Byrd,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
Al Stewart,
Danielle Patucci,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barrington Levy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
One Last Wish,
R.M.O.,
Soft Machine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Guru Guru,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dead C,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.