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 Vietnam and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Dawn Penn to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Fugazi,
Malaria!,
LL Cool J,
The Offenders,
Marvin Gaye,
Crash Course in Science,
Minny Pops,
Babytalk,
Avey Tare,
Nico,
Aswad,
Q and Not U,
Pet Shop Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Yusef Lateef,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Red Krayola,
Grey Daturas,
Sparks,
Theoretical Girls,
Rekid,
Bill Near,
John Coltrane,
Bootsy Collins,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Hill,
Deakin,
John Lydon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soul II Soul,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
Ornette Coleman,
Brass Construction,
Morten Harket,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marc Almond,
David McCallum,
MC5,
Flipper,
Kerrie Biddell,
China Crisis,
The Fortunes,
Banda Bassotti,
Gabor Szabo,
The Moody Blues,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
ABBA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Masters at Work,
Pierre Henry,
Audionom,
The Five Americans,
Thee Headcoats,
Colin Newman,
Outsiders,
This Heat,
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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.