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 Burundi and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Subhumans to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Kaleidoscope,
Marmalade,
The Modern Lovers,
Siglo XX,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crime,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fat Boys,
Infiniti,
The Searchers,
Mandrill,
Thee Headcoats,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rakim,
Brothers Johnson,
Aloha Tigers,
Swans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MDC,
Kurtis Blow,
John Coltrane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Throbbing Gristle,
Amon Düül,
Sixth Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
Fluxion,
These Immortal Souls,
Nas,
D'Angelo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ken Boothe,
Black Pus,
The Evens,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Cecil Taylor,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Womack,
The Pop Group,
Black Sheep,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fuzztones,
Basic Channel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Five Americans,
Urselle,
K-Klass,
Gong,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Stooges,
Black Flag,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.