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 Netherlands and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar 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 Gichy Dan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s 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 Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Crash Course in Science,
The Move,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ronan,
Grauzone,
Jandek,
Easy Going,
The Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
Skriet,
Tears for Fears,
Siglo XX,
Eden Ahbez,
The Evens,
Monks,
Harmonia,
Eric Dolphy,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare,
Amon Düül,
Cal Tjader,
Gichy Dan,
Tomorrow,
Cameo,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cramps,
Anakelly,
The Sound,
Joy Division,
The Pop Group,
Lower 48,
The Durutti Column,
The Golliwogs,
ABBA,
Cybotron,
Lucky Dragons,
Aswad,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Dirtbombs,
Lyres,
China Crisis,
Pulsallama,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Swell Maps,
Quando Quango,
Peter and Kerry,
Parry Music,
Warsaw,
The Fortunes,
Tim Buckley,
Goldenarms,
Wire,
Juan Atkins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camouflage,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.