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 Cyprus and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kurtis Blow,
Agitation Free,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Bananas,
The Wake,
Brothers Johnson,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Can,
Technova,
The Dead C,
Quantec,
The Young Rascals,
DNA,
Motorama,
The Leaves,
Vainqueur,
Jeff Lynne,
Y Pants,
Iggy Pop,
Roxette,
Crime,
Kas Product,
Pulsallama,
Mark Hollis,
The Litter,
Soft Machine,
Underground Resistance,
Mars,
Stetsasonic,
Howard Jones,
The Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Velvet Underground,
Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
Vladislav Delay,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Saints,
Outsiders,
the Swans,
Warsaw,
Unrelated Segments,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
China Crisis,
X-102,
Fat Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Colin Newman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skriet,
Eurythmics,
The Last Poets,
Bill Wells,
The Walker Brothers,
Country Teasers,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.