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 Lebanon and from Halifax.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Stooges to the funk 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Normal,
Crime,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dual Sessions,
Kas Product,
Joensuu 1685,
Alison Limerick,
Absolute Body Control,
Eurythmics,
Thompson Twins,
The Knickerbockers,
Archie Shepp,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Velvet Underground,
Brass Construction,
Erasure,
Dennis Brown,
Bluetip,
Anakelly,
The Count Five,
Leonard Cohen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Barbara Tucker,
The Move,
Deadbeat,
10cc,
The Cowsills,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blossom Toes,
Roy Ayers,
Fatback Band,
Au Pairs,
John Cale,
Con Funk Shun,
Flash Fearless,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
The Human League,
John Foxx,
Symarip,
Gerry Rafferty,
KRS-One,
U.S. Maple,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nirvana,
Smog,
Second Layer,
Morten Harket,
Surgeon,
Crooked Eye,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Happenings,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Albert Ayler,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.