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 Chile and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Duran Duran to the electroclash 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
James White and The Blacks,
Audionom,
The Pop Group,
Cheater Slicks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Flash Fearless,
Gang of Four,
David McCallum,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cal Tjader,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warsaw,
Pantytec,
Ossler,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Eden Ahbez,
Intrusion,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Womack,
Stiv Bators,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Masters at Work,
Pagans,
New Order,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hasil Adkins,
Kenny Larkin,
Bizarre Inc.,
Loose Ends,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cure,
The Doobie Brothers,
Parry Music,
Thompson Twins,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun City Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Bill Wells,
Jeru the Damaja,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fortunes,
Lightning Bolt,
Infiniti,
The Moody Blues,
OOIOO,
Godley & Creme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultra Naté,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ludus,
Sugar Minott,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Zapp,
Nas,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.