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 Poland and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Radiopuhelimet to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Niagra,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Rundgren,
Youth Brigade,
Roy Ayers,
Fat Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
Ludus,
The Raincoats,
Suicide,
The Young Rascals,
Ossler,
Kayak,
John Foxx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tubeway Army,
Sly & The Family Stone,
David Axelrod,
DJ Style,
X-101,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mantronix,
Loose Ends,
Guru Guru,
Rakim,
Livin' Joy,
Easy Going,
Bad Manners,
Yellowson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Modern Lovers,
Japan,
Lalann,
Liliput,
Gang of Four,
Duran Duran,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott Heron,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Pop Group,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rekid,
Bob Dylan,
Make Up,
Sonny Sharrock,
These Immortal Souls,
Basic Channel,
The Invisible,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Animal Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantaleimon,
The New Christs,
The Sonics,
MC5,
Bronski Beat,
Chrome,
Gichy Dan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Lydon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.