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 Zimbabwe and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane 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 '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 Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
U.S. Maple,
Warren Ellis,
Depeche Mode,
Circle Jerks,
Andrew Hill,
Chris Corsano,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
Scrapy,
Bill Wells,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Television Personalities,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Zeros,
Radiohead,
Nas,
Scientists,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Qualms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Residents,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oneida,
Johnny Clarke,
Theoretical Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
The Count Five,
Gong,
KRS-One,
Cheater Slicks,
The Five Americans,
DNA,
Stereo Dub,
Gang of Four,
Porter Ricks,
Soul II Soul,
The Smiths,
Juan Atkins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lightning Bolt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cal Tjader,
Suicide,
In Retrospect,
OOIOO,
Connie Case,
the Slits,
Lungfish,
Cecil Taylor,
Rapeman,
Mad Mike,
The Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
EPMD,
The Barracudas,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.