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 Dominica and from Delhi.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 The Searchers 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
kango's stein massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed,
Electric Prunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Misunderstood,
Patti Smith,
Mad Mike,
Los Fastidios,
The Gap Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jeff Lynne,
Rekid,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jacob Miller,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ponytail,
Ultravox,
Barbara Tucker,
Surgeon,
a-ha,
Yazoo,
The Searchers,
Cybotron,
Kas Product,
The Saints,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Half Japanese,
The Vogues,
Duran Duran,
Young Marble Giants,
Eric Copeland,
Brothers Johnson,
Michelle Simonal,
Fatback Band,
Darondo,
Yusef Lateef,
The Human League,
Marc Almond,
Public Enemy,
The Standells,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
The Smoke,
Bauhaus,
Oblivians,
The Fuzztones,
The Fire Engines,
Charles Mingus,
Vladislav Delay,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Invisible,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lakeside,
the Soft Cell,
Johnny Clarke,
Heaven 17,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.