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 Palau and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar 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 The Gories to the punk 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
The Cramps,
Young Marble Giants,
Aswad,
Bobby Sherman,
Pere Ubu,
The Kinks,
The Blackbyrds,
Graham Central Station,
These Immortal Souls,
Rites of Spring,
Terry Callier,
Sixth Finger,
Ronan,
Masters at Work,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Walker Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Second Layer,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
CMW,
The Residents,
Josef K,
Cluster,
Lyres,
KRS-One,
Bad Manners,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Saints,
The Pop Group,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lakeside,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Supertramp,
David Bowie,
Depeche Mode,
Von Mondo,
Matthew Bourne,
Deakin,
Roxy Music,
Interpol,
Prince Buster,
Erykah Badu,
The Names,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Groovy Waters,
Warren Ellis,
Make Up,
The Remains,
Loose Ends,
The Fall,
PIL,
L. Decosne,
Adolescents,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siglo XX,
Scratch Acid,
Oblivians,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.