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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 Average White Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Leonard Cohen,
The Velvet Underground,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Infiniti,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sun City Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Moleskins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Near,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
ABBA,
Pulsallama,
Wings,
Cybotron,
The Leaves,
Yazoo,
Magma,
Deepchord,
Stiv Bators,
Barrington Levy,
Flipper,
Ronnie Foster,
Bush Tetras,
Joe Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Todd Terry,
K-Klass,
Quantec,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T. Rex,
Cluster,
Loose Ends,
Joensuu 1685,
Jandek,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Offenders,
The Selecter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Maurizio,
Bobby Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
ABC,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
Mark Hollis,
the Swans,
Nico,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.