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 Ukraine and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Skriet to the dance 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Los Fastidios,
Zero Boys,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
F. McDonald,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Davy DMX,
Moebius,
Dave Gahan,
One Last Wish,
a-ha,
The Alarm Clocks,
Arab on Radar,
Pantaleimon,
Kenny Larkin,
Donny Hathaway,
The United States of America,
Radiopuhelimet,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
Skriet,
Procol Harum,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mummies,
Sound Behaviour,
Make Up,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Slits,
The Smiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
Archie Shepp,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Oneida,
Gang Green,
Eden Ahbez,
Little Man,
Black Pus,
The American Breed,
the Human League,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gap Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Duran Duran,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boogie Down Productions,
Youth Brigade,
Visage,
MDC,
U.S. Maple,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cramps,
Wally Richardson,
Cal Tjader,
Babytalk,
Roxy Music,
The Skatalites,
Adolescents,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.