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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 New York Dolls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Q and Not U,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ludus,
Can,
David McCallum,
The Associates,
a-ha,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Saccharine Trust,
Bizarre Inc.,
Television,
Donald Byrd,
Minor Threat,
Harry Pussy,
The Fall,
Boredoms,
Agitation Free,
Soft Machine,
Ponytail,
The Offenders,
Marine Girls,
Archie Shepp,
The Beau Brummels,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Fatback Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Joey Negro,
Urselle,
Surgeon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gong,
Banda Bassotti,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agent Orange,
cv313,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tom Boy,
Loose Ends,
Index,
Oneida,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Green,
Von Mondo,
Amon Düül,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Knickerbockers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.