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 Russia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Saints to the punk 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Qualms,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
K-Klass,
The Smoke,
Gong,
New York Dolls,
The Red Krayola,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Green,
Deakin,
Anakelly,
Brass Construction,
Circle Jerks,
PIL,
Girls At Our Best!,
Funky Four + One,
Supertramp,
Cal Tjader,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tomorrow,
Unrelated Segments,
Rekid,
The Trojans,
Magazine,
Nirvana,
Big Daddy Kane,
X-Ray Spex,
Delta 5,
Jeff Lynne,
Mark Hollis,
Simply Red,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Zero Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Masters at Work,
Deepchord,
Warren Ellis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Martian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
In Retrospect,
Tears for Fears,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bootsy Collins,
Silicon Teens,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fuzztones,
Depeche Mode,
The Modern Lovers,
Magma,
Grey Daturas,
Matthew Halsall,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.