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 Afghanistan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Barbara Tucker to the crunk 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Television Personalities,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bill Wells,
PIL,
Peter and Kerry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jawbox,
Barry Ungar,
Cal Tjader,
Roger Hodgson,
Brothers Johnson,
Connie Case,
Dead Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lalann,
Alphaville,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ludus,
The Knickerbockers,
Bobby Womack,
Gang of Four,
Panda Bear,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Count Five,
Ronnie Foster,
The Human League,
Echospace,
Sandy B,
Rotary Connection,
Erykah Badu,
Gabor Szabo,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers,
Kaleidoscope,
A Certain Ratio,
Moss Icon,
Bob Dylan,
The Buckinghams,
KRS-One,
Juan Atkins,
Crispian St. Peters,
Newcleus,
The Doors,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Essential Logic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Q and Not U,
The Toasters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Associates,
The Blackbyrds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nas,
Kayak,
New Order,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.