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 Uruguay and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Kas Product to the grunge 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
the Germs,
Eurythmics,
Letta Mbulu,
Kurtis Blow,
The Black Dice,
PIL,
Ronnie Foster,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
In Retrospect,
Niagra,
Simply Red,
The American Breed,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doors,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marmalade,
Flipper,
Dual Sessions,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Cramps,
Dennis Brown,
Mr. Review,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terry Callier,
Bootsy Collins,
Darondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gregory Isaacs,
EPMD,
Panda Bear,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Matthew Bourne,
Barry Ungar,
The Skatalites,
John Cale,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Monks,
The Residents,
Delta 5,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ludus,
Urselle,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Funky Four + One,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Dirtbombs,
Alphaville,
DJ Style,
Alice Coltrane,
Second Layer,
Boredoms,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dave Gahan,
The United States of America,
Brand Nubian,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.