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 Togo and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 David Bowie to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
One Last Wish,
Absolute Body Control,
Lakeside,
The New Christs,
China Crisis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Neu!,
Bad Manners,
Faust,
Scrapy,
The Trojans,
New Order,
Oneida,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Swans,
The Walker Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
John Coltrane,
Chris & Cosey,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang Starr,
Mars,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fugs,
Subhumans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
New Age Steppers,
The Gories,
Oblivians,
The Motions,
Warsaw,
Gichy Dan,
Blancmange,
Accadde A,
Yaz,
John Holt,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Intrusion,
Underground Resistance,
Eurythmics,
New York Dolls,
Bush Tetras,
Deepchord,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Slackers,
kango's stein massive,
Barbara Tucker,
Malaria!,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wolf Eyes,
Prince Buster,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The American Breed,
Moebius,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.