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 Tanzania and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Warren Ellis to the electroclash 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Move,
Babytalk,
Chris Corsano,
Patti Smith,
The Barracudas,
The Monochrome Set,
Joe Finger,
FM Einheit,
Amon Düül II,
Camouflage,
John Holt,
Alison Limerick,
Skarface,
Maleditus Sound,
Fear,
Crispy Ambulance,
Reagan Youth,
Hasil Adkins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scan 7,
Unwound,
Agitation Free,
Eden Ahbez,
Trumans Water,
Tubeway Army,
Minny Pops,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Big Daddy Kane,
D'Angelo,
The Vogues,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Names,
Schoolly D,
Rekid,
The Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
The Zeros,
Procol Harum,
Young Marble Giants,
Blake Baxter,
Davy DMX,
Ornette Coleman,
The Saints,
Prince Buster,
Television,
Jacob Miller,
The Gun Club,
The Angels of Light,
James White and The Blacks,
ABC,
The Litter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nirvana,
Chrome,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Toni Rubio,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.