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 Brazil and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Angry Samoans to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Excepter,
Symarip,
Patti Smith,
Y Pants,
The Cure,
Blossom Toes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Anthony Braxton,
Easy Going,
the Slits,
Carl Craig,
Hasil Adkins,
Duran Duran,
Laurel Aitken,
Michelle Simonal,
Fela Kuti,
Altered Images,
Ultimate Spinach,
Archie Shepp,
The Alarm Clocks,
China Crisis,
Roxy Music,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Starr,
Newcleus,
The Cowsills,
The Moody Blues,
The Wake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Trumans Water,
The Martian,
Aural Exciters,
The Move,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Litter,
Wire,
Unrelated Segments,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Zeros,
the Human League,
Livin' Joy,
Goldenarms,
Cecil Taylor,
Stereo Dub,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick Morgan,
The Doors,
Main Source,
Jawbox,
Con Funk Shun,
ABBA,
Albert Ayler,
Icehouse,
Qualms,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nas,
The Vogues,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.