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 Jamaica and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
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 Japan to the techno 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
The Detroit Cobras,
Funkadelic,
Ornette Coleman,
The Star Department,
LL Cool J,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Stooges,
Kurtis Blow,
Audionom,
Eurythmics,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Wyatt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
Yazoo,
Y Pants,
Rosa Yemen,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mojo Men,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Monks,
Lalann,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Popol Vuh,
The Smiths,
Babytalk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Shuggie Otis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Young Rascals,
The Victims,
The Electric Prunes,
Moss Icon,
Guru Guru,
The Tremeloes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Silicon Teens,
Tim Buckley,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Danielle Patucci,
Scott Walker,
The Invisible,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
KRS-One,
The J.B.'s,
La Düsseldorf,
Underground Resistance,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barry Ungar,
Mr. Review,
The Slackers,
E-Dancer,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.