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 Pakistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb 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 Parry Music to the electroclash 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Drexciya,
R.M.O.,
The Blackbyrds,
Audionom,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ten City,
Wire,
Jeff Mills,
Michelle Simonal,
FM Einheit,
The Associates,
Sam Rivers,
Blossom Toes,
Shuggie Otis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Cale,
Second Layer,
Dennis Brown,
Fatback Band,
Metal Thangz,
The Move,
Marc Almond,
Dorothy Ashby,
Buzzcocks,
Ronan,
Avey Tare,
Janne Schatter,
Thee Headcoats,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Neil Young,
Shoche,
10cc,
Bobby Womack,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
AZ,
Monolake,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dirtbombs,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slackers,
Q65,
Joey Negro,
the Sonics,
Jeff Lynne,
New York Dolls,
Fela Kuti,
Newcleus,
Colin Newman,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Victims,
Crispy Ambulance,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.