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 Nicaragua and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Audionom to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Avey Tare,
Minnie Riperton,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Babytalk,
Massinfluence,
Flamin' Groovies,
The United States of America,
The Fire Engines,
The Happenings,
Brass Construction,
Swans,
Maurizio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Y Pants,
E-Dancer,
Rites of Spring,
Groovy Waters,
The Leaves,
Sonic Youth,
Tomorrow,
Fear,
The Last Poets,
Peter & Gordon,
John Holt,
Marvin Gaye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ice-T,
Liliput,
Kaleidoscope,
Essential Logic,
Pagans,
Barrington Levy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
The Gun Club,
The New Christs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Trojans,
Dennis Brown,
Tom Boy,
In Retrospect,
Jeff Mills,
Pulsallama,
Urselle,
Barclay James Harvest,
Porter Ricks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ultravox,
MC5,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.