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 Niger and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the electroclash 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Wings,
Guru Guru,
The Tremeloes,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Womack,
The Associates,
Theoretical Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Tubeway Army,
Spandau Ballet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ronnie Foster,
Rekid,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young,
Magma,
Aaron Thompson,
These Immortal Souls,
Brothers Johnson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Can,
Flipper,
Jerry's Kids,
Agitation Free,
Black Bananas,
Funkadelic,
Excepter,
Bluetip,
Deakin,
The Sonics,
Roy Ayers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Icehouse,
The Slits,
Chrome,
Metal Thangz,
Ten City,
Hardrive,
The Monks,
a-ha,
Cybotron,
Goldenarms,
Minutemen,
Babytalk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maurizio,
Soulsonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Joensuu 1685,
Thee Headcoats,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.