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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Smiths to the rock 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Young Rascals,
Todd Terry,
One Last Wish,
The Moleskins,
Terry Callier,
Tubeway Army,
JFA,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Johnny Clarke,
The Motions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scrapy,
Hardrive,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultimate Spinach,
Warren Ellis,
Au Pairs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marvin Gaye,
Wolf Eyes,
Kaleidoscope,
Icehouse,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
cv313,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Erykah Badu,
The Searchers,
Dennis Brown,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cure,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Negative Approach,
Main Source,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Hill,
Malaria!,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Judy Mowatt,
Urselle,
Talk Talk,
Roxy Music,
Oblivians,
Ice-T,
Soft Cell,
Arab on Radar,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yazoo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Bourne,
Buzzcocks,
Niagra,
Parry Music,
Fear,
The Moody Blues,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Erasure,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flamin' Groovies,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.