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 Armenia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yellowson to the crunk 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
One Last Wish,
Todd Rundgren,
E-Dancer,
Black Sheep,
The Fuzztones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Matthew Bourne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aural Exciters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Inner City,
Quantec,
June of 44,
Neil Young,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Piero Umiliani,
Camouflage,
Suburban Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neu!,
Sound Behaviour,
Echospace,
Organ,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
K-Klass,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Lydon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Monks,
Qualms,
Agitation Free,
Warren Ellis,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Grass Roots,
Bill Near,
Hasil Adkins,
Donny Hathaway,
The Invisible,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Neon Judgement,
Deakin,
The Gun Club,
June Days,
Underground Resistance,
Minnie Riperton,
Kerri Chandler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Music Machine,
China Crisis,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Blues Magoos,
The Busters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lightning Bolt,
B.T. Express,
The Stooges,
Gong,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.