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 South Africa and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Robert Palmer 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 Janne Schatter to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Henry Cow,
The Gun Club,
Bizarre Inc.,
OOIOO,
James White and The Blacks,
Blancmange,
The Smiths,
Boredoms,
Erykah Badu,
PIL,
Television Personalities,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Quando Quango,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alice Coltrane,
Smog,
Faraquet,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Colin Newman,
Ultravox,
Man Parrish,
Schoolly D,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
Lakeside,
Alphaville,
Cheater Slicks,
T.S.O.L.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Al Stewart,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dead Boys,
The Five Americans,
Sex Pistols,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bill Near,
Aural Exciters,
Ohio Players,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Blake Baxter,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
H. Thieme,
Roxy Music,
Brass Construction,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Wasted Youth,
Roy Ayers,
The Raincoats,
The Searchers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.