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 Turkey and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 China Crisis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Unrelated Segments,
Aural Exciters,
Massinfluence,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Main Source,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Pus,
Parry Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ronan,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young,
Chris Corsano,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultra Naté,
Index,
Suicide,
Youth Brigade,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Can,
T.S.O.L.,
Tres Demented,
Oneida,
John Holt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Dolphy,
Susan Cadogan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
E-Dancer,
X-101,
Pulsallama,
Rekid,
Alison Limerick,
Pantytec,
Gastr Del Sol,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ultravox,
The Mummies,
The Leaves,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
8 Eyed Spy,
Toni Rubio,
Tommy Roe,
The Stooges,
Lou Christie,
Alphaville,
Talk Talk,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deadbeat,
David McCallum,
Jawbox,
Wasted Youth,
Television Personalities,
Delon & Dalcan,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.