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 Barbados and from New York.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 Goldenarms to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Ultravox,
Saccharine Trust,
The Real Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
Yazoo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Toni Rubio,
Moebius,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fuzztones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
Shoche,
Amon Düül,
Matthew Halsall,
Subhumans,
Mantronix,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
The Golliwogs,
Marine Girls,
Tomorrow,
Electric Prunes,
Howard Jones,
Joe Finger,
The Gap Band,
The Tremeloes,
Flash Fearless,
Gabor Szabo,
John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
Lucky Dragons,
Arcadia,
Black Flag,
Jeff Mills,
Warsaw,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun City Girls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Glenn Branca,
Warren Ellis,
Josef K,
Urselle,
Public Enemy,
Lower 48,
Grauzone,
New Age Steppers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soulsonic Force,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Erykah Badu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Andrew Hill,
Agent Orange,
Eric Copeland,
Stiv Bators,
the Normal,
R.M.O.,
The Motions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.