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 Kazakhstan and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the techno 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Grauzone,
The Raincoats,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ralphi Rosario,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Sheep,
Roger Hodgson,
The Count Five,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aural Exciters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Make Up,
Hashim,
Sparks,
The Angels of Light,
Guru Guru,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barrington Levy,
Chris & Cosey,
Goldenarms,
Basic Channel,
Ice-T,
Cal Tjader,
Slick Rick,
Von Mondo,
Metal Thangz,
Spoonie Gee,
The Litter,
The Techniques,
Ultravox,
Wire,
Dawn Penn,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Last Poets,
Soft Cell,
H. Thieme,
Carl Craig,
Franke,
Alphaville,
The Gladiators,
World's Most,
the Soft Cell,
Cymande,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Divine Comedy,
John Foxx,
Black Bananas,
These Immortal Souls,
Slave,
DJ Style,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
X-101,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.