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 Lebanon and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cal Tjader to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Sisters of Mercy,
Flipper,
Vladislav Delay,
John Holt,
Andrew Hill,
Marc Almond,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Music Machine,
The United States of America,
Robert Wyatt,
The Walker Brothers,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Suicide,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
Fear,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Erykah Badu,
Radio Birdman,
Albert Ayler,
Kenny Larkin,
Scott Walker,
Ultra Naté,
Cymande,
Absolute Body Control,
Inner City,
Josef K,
The Pretty Things,
Alton Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
Neil Young,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
The Names,
Negative Approach,
Sonic Youth,
The Zeros,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Brick,
Basic Channel,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Howard Jones,
Joy Division,
Groovy Waters,
New York Dolls,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalo Schifrin,
T.S.O.L.,
Fad Gadget,
Minny Pops,
Harmonia,
Yellowson,
Guru Guru,
X-Ray Spex,
the Soft Cell,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.