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 Albania and from Bologna.
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 Manila and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Last Poets to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
World's Most,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül II,
Vainqueur,
Skaos,
Andrew Hill,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quantec,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Duran Duran,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed,
KRS-One,
Howard Jones,
Talk Talk,
Mark Hollis,
Simply Red,
Brass Construction,
Basic Channel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sly & The Family Stone,
10cc,
Hoover,
Theoretical Girls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sam Rivers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
Mantronix,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kenny Larkin,
Deepchord,
Jeff Mills,
Cluster,
Connie Case,
Massinfluence,
The Fugs,
Television Personalities,
Can,
Main Source,
Jacques Brel,
Josef K,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
Zapp,
Marc Almond,
EPMD,
Rufus Thomas,
Lyres,
Crooked Eye,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Martian,
The Stooges,
Girls At Our Best!,
Unwound,
Pere Ubu,
Liliput,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.