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 East Timor and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
La Düsseldorf,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Model 500,
The Slackers,
a-ha,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DNA,
Todd Terry,
Eden Ahbez,
The Residents,
Barrington Levy,
Warren Ellis,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dirtbombs,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
cv313,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hot Snakes,
Piero Umiliani,
Ponytail,
Anthony Braxton,
Can,
Funky Four + One,
the Swans,
Pere Ubu,
Maurizio,
Blancmange,
Mo-Dettes,
B.T. Express,
The Associates,
Qualms,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cymande,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
EPMD,
Minnie Riperton,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
Y Pants,
Terry Callier,
Radiohead,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Masters at Work,
Barbara Tucker,
Camberwell Now,
The Searchers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wolf Eyes,
Bush Tetras,
Swans,
Archie Shepp,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camouflage,
Yazoo,
Gabor Szabo,
X-Ray Spex,
The Monks,
Jandek,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.