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 Samoa and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 UT to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Duran Duran,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
Nik Kershaw,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sonics,
Blancmange,
Monks,
Suburban Knight,
The Dirtbombs,
kango's stein massive,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Hardrive,
Fad Gadget,
Brass Construction,
Animal Collective,
Erasure,
The Fall,
Jacques Brel,
Bad Manners,
Essential Logic,
Franke,
Scientists,
Minutemen,
Quadrant,
The Names,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sarah Menescal,
Cal Tjader,
Ice-T,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
Masters at Work,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mr. Review,
Ronan,
Swans,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Smooth,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kas Product,
Piero Umiliani,
The Trojans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun City Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Human League,
Scion,
World's Most,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cybotron,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.