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 Egypt and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Blake Baxter,
Moebius,
Groovy Waters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Teasers,
Danielle Patucci,
Half Japanese,
Cal Tjader,
Reagan Youth,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
Quantec,
Mark Hollis,
Crash Course in Science,
Niagra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eurythmics,
Television,
The Smiths,
Sun Ra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Al Stewart,
Magazine,
Motorama,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Kinks,
Soulsonic Force,
Spandau Ballet,
World's Most,
Neu!,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mission of Burma,
Dennis Brown,
Rotary Connection,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
Franke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Boz Scaggs,
Heaven 17,
Yaz,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kenny Larkin,
Absolute Body Control,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mo-Dettes,
Byron Stingily,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moby Grape,
Audionom,
ABBA,
Funkadelic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
Brass Construction,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.