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 Korea South and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Nico to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Drive Like Jehu,
Hashim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marvin Gaye,
David McCallum,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Carl Craig,
Shuggie Otis,
Yusef Lateef,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Stooges,
Cluster,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk,
Connie Case,
Magma,
Sarah Menescal,
Hasil Adkins,
Marmalade,
Toni Rubio,
Chris & Cosey,
The Zeros,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Arcadia,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Hill,
The Vogues,
X-101,
The Fall,
Kas Product,
H. Thieme,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dead C,
Rapeman,
ABBA,
Howard Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Motorama,
Subhumans,
The Velvet Underground,
Quadrant,
Nick Fraelich,
Jacques Brel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Certain Ratio,
Kurtis Blow,
Donald Byrd,
The Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
Delon & Dalcan,
Freddie Wadling,
John Coltrane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.