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 Madrid.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Donald Byrd to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Hutcherson,
KRS-One,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
The Saints,
John Foxx,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rosa Yemen,
Bauhaus,
Bush Tetras,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ossler,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nirvana,
New Order,
The Five Americans,
Basic Channel,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Beau Brummels,
Man Eating Sloth,
Moebius,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kurtis Blow,
Echospace,
Brick,
Arab on Radar,
Laurel Aitken,
Sugar Minott,
Deakin,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radio Birdman,
Eddi Front,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Derrick May,
Warsaw,
Scratch Acid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
T.S.O.L.,
Bronski Beat,
Black Sheep,
Steve Hackett,
Neu!,
PIL,
The Barracudas,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
Roxy Music,
Marc Almond,
Davy DMX,
Depeche Mode,
Circle Jerks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Panda Bear,
Kerri Chandler,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.