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 Madagascar and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Niagra to the disco 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Infiniti,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barry Ungar,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Brass Construction,
CMW,
Ten City,
Rites of Spring,
Fela Kuti,
Stereo Dub,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fall,
Organ,
Nirvana,
The Music Machine,
Aaron Thompson,
The Residents,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bauhaus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Trumans Water,
the Soft Cell,
Guru Guru,
John Coltrane,
Motorama,
Johnny Clarke,
Young Marble Giants,
In Retrospect,
Matthew Bourne,
the Swans,
Eurythmics,
The Monochrome Set,
The Black Dice,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soft Cell,
John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
Hoover,
The Raincoats,
Qualms,
This Heat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
Intrusion,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Television,
Magma,
The Martian,
Animal Collective,
Metal Thangz,
MDC,
Cybotron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Susan Cadogan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.