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 Montenegro and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jeru the Damaja to the punk 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Happenings,
Rotary Connection,
One Last Wish,
Josef K,
Cal Tjader,
Barry Ungar,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minor Threat,
The Real Kids,
Absolute Body Control,
The Searchers,
Thompson Twins,
Qualms,
Connie Case,
KRS-One,
Glenn Branca,
Nirvana,
Tres Demented,
Boz Scaggs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mad Mike,
Crooked Eye,
Hardrive,
Loose Ends,
Masters at Work,
Blancmange,
John Lydon,
Amon Düül II,
The Red Krayola,
Howard Jones,
Massinfluence,
The Standells,
Faust,
Interpol,
The Cramps,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
Albert Ayler,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Mark Hollis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Television Personalities,
Maurizio,
Lalann,
Ken Boothe,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rites of Spring,
Joyce Sims,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nik Kershaw,
DNA,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.