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 Mozambique and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Quantec to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Negative Approach,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter & Gordon,
Echospace,
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
Steve Hackett,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Busters,
Crime,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aural Exciters,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eddi Front,
Rakim,
One Last Wish,
Marcia Griffiths,
David Axelrod,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sällskapet,
The Remains,
The Moleskins,
New Age Steppers,
Technova,
Sight & Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Invisible,
X-101,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Byrd,
Porter Ricks,
The Standells,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
The Knickerbockers,
Lakeside,
The Gladiators,
Smog,
Q65,
Laurel Aitken,
Bronski Beat,
The Zeros,
The Index,
Tom Boy,
Scott Walker,
Juan Atkins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Saints,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
Aloha Tigers,
Grauzone,
Sandy B,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.