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 Oman and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Searchers,
Moss Icon,
The Slackers,
Lucky Dragons,
Boredoms,
Maurizio,
The Gladiators,
Technova,
D'Angelo,
Wire,
Sonny Sharrock,
Steve Hackett,
Marmalade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Buzzcocks,
Oblivians,
Dorothy Ashby,
Au Pairs,
Suburban Knight,
Pharoah Sanders,
Desert Stars,
Aswad,
Idris Muhammad,
U.S. Maple,
Althea and Donna,
Subhumans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Inner City,
Delta 5,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Second Layer,
Jeff Mills,
Matthew Halsall,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vladislav Delay,
Wolf Eyes,
Letta Mbulu,
Rapeman,
Fugazi,
Sound Behaviour,
8 Eyed Spy,
Unwound,
ABC,
Royal Trux,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ohio Players,
Blancmange,
Nik Kershaw,
Camberwell Now,
Boogie Down Productions,
Japan,
The Velvet Underground,
Outsiders,
Sight & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
X-102,
Lyres,
kango's stein massive,
The Fuzztones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.