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 Cambodia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Pantaleimon to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Hardrive,
Tropical Tobacco,
Unrelated Segments,
Fat Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gichy Dan,
Television,
Ten City,
Marvin Gaye,
Bill Wells,
X-Ray Spex,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalo Schifrin,
H. Thieme,
Boredoms,
Das Ding,
Tres Demented,
Brick,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fall,
The Evens,
Funky Four + One,
Accadde A,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Connie Case,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sound Behaviour,
Girls At Our Best!,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deakin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grey Daturas,
Desert Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
Second Layer,
Underground Resistance,
Kaleidoscope,
China Crisis,
Franke,
Zapp,
Cal Tjader,
Black Flag,
Scott Walker,
Ultimate Spinach,
Outsiders,
Eddi Front,
David Axelrod,
Man Parrish,
Public Enemy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.