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 Mexico and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 10cc to the rap 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
Faraquet,
Darondo,
The Toasters,
Donny Hathaway,
The Vogues,
Q65,
Neil Young,
Soul II Soul,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül,
Donald Byrd,
Crime,
Derrick May,
Erasure,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Finger,
The Slits,
Drexciya,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ponytail,
Kayak,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Evens,
Model 500,
The Skatalites,
Josef K,
Gong,
Sister Nancy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun Ra,
Rod Modell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bill Near,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chris & Cosey,
Man Parrish,
Section 25,
Surgeon,
Warsaw,
The Mummies,
Eddi Front,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Enemy,
Todd Rundgren,
Technova,
Niagra,
In Retrospect,
Juan Atkins,
John Holt,
Au Pairs,
Deepchord,
Ohio Players,
Marshall Jefferson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radio Birdman,
Silicon Teens,
Dead Boys,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.