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 Grenada and from Copenhagen.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 Audionom to the crunk 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Black Flag,
The Cowsills,
Ken Boothe,
Niagra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Malaria!,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Supertramp,
Robert Hood,
Warren Ellis,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scion,
The Sound,
The Count Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Joe Smooth,
Monks,
Technova,
Ice-T,
One Last Wish,
Crooked Eye,
Newcleus,
Lower 48,
Desert Stars,
Pantytec,
The Names,
Barbara Tucker,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
Pantaleimon,
Archie Shepp,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fugs,
Second Layer,
U.S. Maple,
Goldenarms,
Sex Pistols,
The Sonics,
Royal Trux,
Schoolly D,
MC5,
Clear Light,
The Zeros,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Peter & Gordon,
Urselle,
Piero Umiliani,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Duran Duran,
The Smiths,
The Offenders,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.