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 Dominica and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 a-ha to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
Thee Headcoats,
The Saints,
Khruangbin,
D'Angelo,
Youth Brigade,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed,
David Axelrod,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare,
Metal Thangz,
Motorama,
Camouflage,
X-101,
Von Mondo,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gories,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marcia Griffiths,
Boredoms,
Kurtis Blow,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
Con Funk Shun,
The Monochrome Set,
Moss Icon,
Barbara Tucker,
Animal Collective,
Stereo Dub,
Agent Orange,
The Fall,
Panda Bear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yusef Lateef,
Pagans,
Magazine,
Electric Prunes,
Sex Pistols,
Grey Daturas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Magma,
Stockholm Monsters,
Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Mad Mike,
Alphaville,
Eric B and Rakim,
Patti Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Residents,
The Stooges,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.