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 Bahamas and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
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 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 Michael McDonald 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 Peter and Kerry to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Tim Buckley,
X-102,
the Slits,
In Retrospect,
Roger Hodgson,
Electric Prunes,
Television Personalities,
Marc Almond,
Scan 7,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Starr,
The United States of America,
PIL,
The Moody Blues,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Saints,
The Gladiators,
Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terry Callier,
The Dead C,
Tears for Fears,
Soft Cell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
June Days,
The Seeds,
Leonard Cohen,
Scott Walker,
Shuggie Otis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Altered Images,
Unrelated Segments,
Michelle Simonal,
Pylon,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Depeche Mode,
Motorama,
D'Angelo,
The Blackbyrds,
Au Pairs,
Desert Stars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fela Kuti,
Soft Machine,
Silicon Teens,
Make Up,
Roy Ayers,
Reagan Youth,
Von Mondo,
June of 44,
Sister Nancy,
Half Japanese,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.