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 Uruguay and from London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Smoke to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grey Daturas,
Theoretical Girls,
Cymande,
Nico,
Todd Rundgren,
Technova,
This Heat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Masters at Work,
Second Layer,
Lower 48,
The Gories,
Fear,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Basic Channel,
Duran Duran,
Eli Mardock,
Scion,
Radiohead,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
David Bowie,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scientists,
Joyce Sims,
ABBA,
Skaos,
Joey Negro,
Dave Gahan,
Alison Limerick,
Adolescents,
Janne Schatter,
The Invisible,
The Wake,
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Sonic Youth,
Niagra,
Mad Mike,
Ponytail,
The Human League,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Heaven 17,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fortunes,
Ice-T,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Music Machine,
Deakin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ronnie Foster,
a-ha,
The Smiths,
Flipper,
Aswad,
Sun City Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.