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 Paraguay and from Toronto.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer 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 Tomorrow to the techno 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Anthony Braxton,
The Pop Group,
Cameo,
Soulsonic Force,
Jandek,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Con Funk Shun,
Boz Scaggs,
Al Stewart,
Anakelly,
Index,
The Human League,
Barrington Levy,
Duran Duran,
The Raincoats,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Erasure,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick Morgan,
Groovy Waters,
Glambeats Corp.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Juan Atkins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Moody Blues,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
New Order,
Little Man,
Magazine,
Byron Stingily,
the Bar-Kays,
Heaven 17,
The Skatalites,
Kenny Larkin,
Urselle,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Real Kids,
Surgeon,
AZ,
Skaos,
The Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Clear Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Neu!,
Robert Hood,
Fat Boys,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy Collins,
The J.B.'s,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aloha Tigers,
The Neon Judgement,
The Count Five,
Joensuu 1685,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.