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 Argentina and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lower 48 to the grime 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
the Association,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Foxx,
Kerrie Biddell,
Theoretical Girls,
Don Cherry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lower 48,
Eurythmics,
Sound Behaviour,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Slave,
Siglo XX,
Nik Kershaw,
Television Personalities,
Mission of Burma,
Goldenarms,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
China Crisis,
Idris Muhammad,
Ossler,
David McCallum,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Soft Machine,
The Motions,
Buzzcocks,
Thompson Twins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Q and Not U,
Josef K,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fela Kuti,
The Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Japan,
Jeff Lynne,
Terry Callier,
Reagan Youth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ohio Players,
Masters at Work,
Jandek,
The Sonics,
The Moleskins,
Spoonie Gee,
AZ,
Electric Prunes,
Scott Walker,
Panda Bear,
Aural Exciters,
Archie Shepp,
Sixth Finger,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.