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 United Kingdom and from Toronto.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Litter to the rock 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bootsy Collins,
Alphaville,
Robert Wyatt,
Echospace,
Motorama,
Country Teasers,
Eddi Front,
Rufus Thomas,
Warsaw,
Smog,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
F. McDonald,
Black Bananas,
Fatback Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sixth Finger,
Swell Maps,
Maleditus Sound,
Panda Bear,
New Order,
Rod Modell,
Marvin Gaye,
Boredoms,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gap Band,
The Count Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Modern Lovers,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Sonics,
a-ha,
The Neon Judgement,
Simply Red,
Faust,
Los Fastidios,
Pere Ubu,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
Urselle,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Offenders,
Bauhaus,
Thee Headcoats,
Chris & Cosey,
Ornette Coleman,
Janne Schatter,
Crime,
Youth Brigade,
Funkadelic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
Neu!,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.