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 Laos and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Drive Like Jehu to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Prince Buster,
Television Personalities,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cowsills,
Barclay James Harvest,
Q and Not U,
Mo-Dettes,
The Count Five,
Country Teasers,
Mark Hollis,
John Cale,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jandek,
Kerri Chandler,
Junior Murvin,
Lalo Schifrin,
Urselle,
The Mojo Men,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Boredoms,
David Axelrod,
The J.B.'s,
The Evens,
U.S. Maple,
Quando Quango,
The Victims,
Slick Rick,
the Swans,
Subhumans,
Public Enemy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ronnie Foster,
Freddie Wadling,
Crispian St. Peters,
Procol Harum,
Magazine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mummies,
DJ Style,
Infiniti,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Certain Ratio,
Cheater Slicks,
The Martian,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Aswad,
X-Ray Spex,
Cybotron,
Fatback Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Altered Images,
Archie Shepp,
Charles Mingus,
The Electric Prunes,
the Human League,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.