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 Eritrea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Massinfluence to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stiv Bators,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
Television Personalities,
Bad Manners,
UT,
FM Einheit,
Scion,
T.S.O.L.,
The Young Rascals,
In Retrospect,
Agitation Free,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aswad,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Blancmange,
Mandrill,
The Modern Lovers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Grauzone,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
Minny Pops,
Aloha Tigers,
Iggy Pop,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Junior Murvin,
Howard Jones,
Gang Starr,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Rod Modell,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Janne Schatter,
James White and The Blacks,
One Last Wish,
Wire,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
The Last Poets,
Davy DMX,
Qualms,
AZ,
Negative Approach,
Vladislav Delay,
Liliput,
the Soft Cell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marmalade,
The Evens,
Jandek,
Bronski Beat,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.