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 Mozambique and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
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 Captain Beefheart 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 Second Layer to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Glenn Branca,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yusef Lateef,
the Human League,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Star Department,
The Misunderstood,
The Young Rascals,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tubeway Army,
Roxette,
Guru Guru,
the Bar-Kays,
Erykah Badu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Archie Shepp,
Eric B and Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
Darondo,
Aswad,
Half Japanese,
Ronnie Foster,
The Offenders,
Q and Not U,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Television,
Delon & Dalcan,
Livin' Joy,
Simply Red,
Buzzcocks,
World's Most,
The Barracudas,
The Shadows of Knight,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alice Coltrane,
Bill Near,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Swans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Dead C,
Cybotron,
Yaz,
The Raincoats,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott Heron,
Alphaville,
The Moleskins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Basic Channel,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Clarke,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.