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 China and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scrapy to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Pierre Henry,
The Associates,
Graham Central Station,
Animal Collective,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
K-Klass,
Bootsy Collins,
Matthew Bourne,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Dave Gahan,
Althea and Donna,
The Monochrome Set,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Durutti Column,
Kerri Chandler,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fugs,
Roxy Music,
Technova,
Second Layer,
The Electric Prunes,
A Certain Ratio,
The New Christs,
Infiniti,
Massinfluence,
Jawbox,
Index,
The Toasters,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
John Cale,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Copeland,
Kayak,
The Barracudas,
Bronski Beat,
Pagans,
Joey Negro,
Sam Rivers,
John Holt,
The Slackers,
In Retrospect,
The Cowsills,
Arthur Verocai,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chris & Cosey,
Sällskapet,
Kurtis Blow,
The Saints,
Rod Modell,
The Misunderstood,
Kaleidoscope,
Youth Brigade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Outsiders,
Joyce Sims,
Bizarre Inc.,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.