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 Swaziland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Robert Palmer 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 Motorama to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Tim Buckley,
Camouflage,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Thompson Twins,
Symarip,
Oblivians,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fugs,
Soft Machine,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
Von Mondo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Supertramp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Altered Images,
Alison Limerick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pole,
R.M.O.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
The Angels of Light,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cameo,
Swans,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Move,
Yellowson,
Sugar Minott,
Bad Manners,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Chrome,
One Last Wish,
Glenn Branca,
The Index,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lyres,
Dave Gahan,
Surgeon,
L. Decosne,
Lungfish,
The Human League,
Visage,
Television,
Todd Rundgren,
Colin Newman,
The Victims,
EPMD,
Inner City,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eli Mardock,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.