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 Qatar and from Stockholm.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin 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 Delon & Dalcan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Ludus,
Youth Brigade,
Faraquet,
Masters at Work,
Severed Heads,
Zapp,
the Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
Suburban Knight,
Unwound,
Fatback Band,
The Martian,
Quando Quango,
Sister Nancy,
Basic Channel,
Johnny Clarke,
Patti Smith,
Brick,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Fraelich,
Rapeman,
Skriet,
Fat Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Warsaw,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dave Gahan,
Nirvana,
Tom Boy,
Sixth Finger,
Janne Schatter,
New York Dolls,
T. Rex,
The Cure,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Television,
In Retrospect,
Deakin,
Minutemen,
The Skatalites,
Slave,
Iggy Pop,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
kango's stein massive,
The Motions,
Darondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacob Miller,
The Monochrome Set,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Divine Comedy,
Make Up,
X-101,
Bobby Byrd,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roy Ayers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.