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 Germany and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Cecil Taylor to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Cameo,
Sixth Finger,
Wings,
Peter & Gordon,
Agitation Free,
Nik Kershaw,
Graham Central Station,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Monolake,
Grey Daturas,
Alison Limerick,
Gang Starr,
Sandy B,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
Alton Ellis,
Theoretical Girls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Flag,
Delon & Dalcan,
Al Stewart,
Lalann,
Idris Muhammad,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moebius,
Von Mondo,
Yellowson,
The Martian,
Alice Coltrane,
Radiohead,
Index,
Terrestrial Tones,
Robert Görl,
Fear,
The Dave Clark Five,
Trumans Water,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Seeds,
F. McDonald,
Jandek,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bronski Beat,
David Bowie,
Severed Heads,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Moss Icon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Drive Like Jehu,
Livin' Joy,
The Electric Prunes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Motions,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Bananas,
Slave,
Suicide,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.