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 Mongolia and from Madrid.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Joyce Sims,
Man Eating Sloth,
Y Pants,
Dave Gahan,
Moebius,
Black Moon,
Swans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marc Almond,
Junior Murvin,
Donald Byrd,
Niagra,
Jeff Mills,
Absolute Body Control,
Little Man,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
Unrelated Segments,
Skaos,
Sugar Minott,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Morten Harket,
The Gories,
Gang Green,
Ituana,
Juan Atkins,
The Real Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mission of Burma,
The Buckinghams,
Livin' Joy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Parrish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scrapy,
Nik Kershaw,
the Swans,
Sex Pistols,
Dawn Penn,
Fugazi,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fatback Band,
Toni Rubio,
The Selecter,
Warsaw,
Fear,
Visage,
Mark Hollis,
The Durutti Column,
Duran Duran,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
kango's stein massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gun Club,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
Blake Baxter,
Von Mondo,
Thee Headcoats,
Popol Vuh,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.