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 Azerbaijan and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 China Crisis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hashim,
Banda Bassotti,
Brothers Johnson,
Aaron Thompson,
Pere Ubu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Unwound,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Slits,
Guru Guru,
Harpers Bizarre,
Alison Limerick,
Shuggie Otis,
Joy Division,
UT,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Theoretical Girls,
the Soft Cell,
Man Parrish,
Ultravox,
Bang On A Can,
Metal Thangz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blancmange,
Vladislav Delay,
Marc Almond,
Roy Ayers,
Faraquet,
Stetsasonic,
The Cure,
Sly & The Family Stone,
A Certain Ratio,
Black Flag,
Barry Ungar,
James White and The Blacks,
Eurythmics,
Sun City Girls,
Groovy Waters,
Kayak,
Flamin' Groovies,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABC,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Funky Four + One,
Camberwell Now,
Make Up,
Brand Nubian,
The Trojans,
Neu!,
Tomorrow,
Aloha Tigers,
Ten City,
Scion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Young Marble Giants,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.