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 Eritrea and from Glasgow.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Cairo.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 a-ha to the techno 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Toasters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lalann,
Charles Mingus,
The Alarm Clocks,
Das Ding,
Man Eating Sloth,
Skaos,
Thompson Twins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Motions,
The Pretty Things,
Aloha Tigers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Spoonie Gee,
Easy Going,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pulsallama,
Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
Technova,
Roxette,
Wings,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soul II Soul,
Aural Exciters,
Urselle,
Essential Logic,
Zero Boys,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
Deepchord,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Victims,
The Mummies,
Camouflage,
Massinfluence,
The Electric Prunes,
DJ Style,
Sparks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lungfish,
The Knickerbockers,
Model 500,
Minny Pops,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Moebius,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Vladislav Delay,
Talk Talk,
Silicon Teens,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Aswad,
Eric Copeland,
Cal Tjader,
Pantaleimon,
Adolescents,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.