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 Somalia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 the Slits to the disco 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
Massinfluence,
Bauhaus,
Neu!,
Marmalade,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dark Day,
Scan 7,
Con Funk Shun,
Livin' Joy,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cure,
Zero Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Unrelated Segments,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Moby Grape,
Unwound,
Banda Bassotti,
The Star Department,
Hashim,
June Days,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ken Boothe,
Ludus,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Hoover,
Janne Schatter,
Nirvana,
Shoche,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Patti Smith,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anakelly,
The Selecter,
Symarip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kayak,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kerrie Biddell,
X-102,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Second Layer,
Nik Kershaw,
Aloha Tigers,
Siglo XX,
The Fuzztones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roy Ayers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camberwell Now,
Eve St. Jones,
The Buckinghams,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.