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 Finland and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Icehouse to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Selecter,
Fad Gadget,
Toni Rubio,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
David Axelrod,
Thee Headcoats,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Blake Baxter,
The Standells,
Masters at Work,
Wire,
Suburban Knight,
Chris & Cosey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Al Stewart,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Judy Mowatt,
Bauhaus,
Boredoms,
Rakim,
Nico,
Reagan Youth,
Dead Boys,
The Slackers,
Idris Muhammad,
Marcia Griffiths,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Gang Gang Dance,
Essential Logic,
Don Cherry,
Soul II Soul,
The Motions,
Matthew Halsall,
U.S. Maple,
Lindisfarne,
Roger Hodgson,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scrapy,
Zero Boys,
Robert Hood,
Audionom,
The Move,
The Durutti Column,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soul Sonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Crooked Eye,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.