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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Janne Schatter to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth,
Little Man,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cameo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Infiniti,
Suburban Knight,
UT,
Skarface,
Schoolly D,
Metal Thangz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eddi Front,
Rufus Thomas,
Y Pants,
Archie Shepp,
Alton Ellis,
Drexciya,
ABC,
The Index,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Minutemen,
The Move,
MC5,
Echospace,
Smog,
Jandek,
Bill Wells,
Anthony Braxton,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oblivians,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Blues Magoos,
Index,
DNA,
Black Sheep,
Soft Machine,
Malaria!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Davy DMX,
Max Romeo,
Josef K,
K-Klass,
Godley & Creme,
Second Layer,
Popol Vuh,
Japan,
Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Gang Starr,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Joensuu 1685,
Marc Almond,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.