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 Australia and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Adolescents to the grime 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Fat Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Flag,
Alice Coltrane,
cv313,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rakim,
Charles Mingus,
Patti Smith,
Essential Logic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dark Day,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Das Ding,
Negative Approach,
Archie Shepp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Human League,
The Monks,
Matthew Bourne,
Erykah Badu,
Tres Demented,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Don Cherry,
The Invisible,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skriet,
Joensuu 1685,
MC5,
Mad Mike,
Arab on Radar,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ronnie Foster,
Gichy Dan,
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mars,
The Last Poets,
Warsaw,
Lower 48,
X-101,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sonics,
Parry Music,
Lungfish,
DNA,
Maurizio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pharoah Sanders,
New York Dolls,
Accadde A,
Josef K,
Sugar Minott,
Isaac Hayes,
Stockholm Monsters,
June of 44,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.