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 Burkina and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 John Foxx to the dance 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
The J.B.'s,
Angry Samoans,
FM Einheit,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
Nik Kershaw,
Soul Sonic Force,
Harry Pussy,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Searchers,
OOIOO,
Bush Tetras,
The Busters,
Barrington Levy,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Pretty Things,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roy Ayers,
The Offenders,
Lower 48,
10cc,
Whodini,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rapeman,
Wire,
R.M.O.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sandy B,
Sam Rivers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Henry Cow,
Tres Demented,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Shuggie Otis,
Colin Newman,
Minor Threat,
The Velvet Underground,
Q and Not U,
LL Cool J,
Joensuu 1685,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Pus,
Dark Day,
Youth Brigade,
Negative Approach,
Nirvana,
The Raincoats,
Derrick Morgan,
Gichy Dan,
The Gladiators,
Wally Richardson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Deadbeat,
Bootsy Collins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.