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 Uganda and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Infiniti to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grauzone,
Isaac Hayes,
Desert Stars,
Country Teasers,
The Walker Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Colin Newman,
Basic Channel,
The Divine Comedy,
Camouflage,
Suburban Knight,
cv313,
Spandau Ballet,
The Litter,
Archie Shepp,
Aaron Thompson,
Essential Logic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Rod Modell,
Godley & Creme,
Scion,
Scott Walker,
Newcleus,
The Mummies,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
X-101,
Aloha Tigers,
The Remains,
Neil Young,
Ronnie Foster,
The Detroit Cobras,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Black Dice,
Yaz,
48th St. Collective,
Yusef Lateef,
Erykah Badu,
The Angels of Light,
Section 25,
Robert Wyatt,
Pierre Henry,
Arthur Verocai,
Nik Kershaw,
The Gories,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Hood,
The Real Kids,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
Sound Behaviour,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.