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 Micronesia and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Soft Machine to the rock 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
PIL,
Morten Harket,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hasil Adkins,
The Modern Lovers,
cv313,
Half Japanese,
Rekid,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed,
Stiv Bators,
Delon & Dalcan,
Little Man,
Swans,
Dead Boys,
Kas Product,
Jandek,
Sex Pistols,
The Stooges,
The Sound,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ossler,
Letta Mbulu,
Spoonie Gee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crime,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marvin Gaye,
This Heat,
The Slits,
Fluxion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
LL Cool J,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Halsall,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jerry's Kids,
Anakelly,
T. Rex,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lalann,
Roy Ayers,
John Holt,
Essential Logic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
Ronnie Foster,
Zapp,
Tubeway Army,
Amazonics,
F. McDonald,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wasted Youth,
Second Layer,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bad Manners,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.