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 Austria and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Theoretical Girls to the funk 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Popol Vuh,
Porter Ricks,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Copeland,
Visage,
The Gories,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alison Limerick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Young Rascals,
U.S. Maple,
Ultravox,
Peter & Gordon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tommy Roe,
Crooked Eye,
Half Japanese,
cv313,
Hot Snakes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Charles Mingus,
Crime,
Jacob Miller,
Ludus,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
The Neon Judgement,
Shoche,
Fad Gadget,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Pop Group,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
Funky Four + One,
Anakelly,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bauhaus,
Lightning Bolt,
Yazoo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Hill,
Soft Machine,
Negative Approach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masters at Work,
the Bar-Kays,
Khruangbin,
Niagra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Unrelated Segments,
Sam Rivers,
Echospace,
Nico,
Das Ding,
Jacques Brel,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.