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 China and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Josef K to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
The Monochrome Set,
The Seeds,
The United States of America,
Second Layer,
48th St. Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Lindisfarne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soul II Soul,
A Certain Ratio,
Arcadia,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Maurizio,
Los Fastidios,
Main Source,
Symarip,
Outsiders,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ponytail,
T. Rex,
Freddie Wadling,
MDC,
Crispian St. Peters,
Von Mondo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Glenn Branca,
Rites of Spring,
The Zeros,
Quantec,
The J.B.'s,
Peter and Kerry,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Leaves,
Todd Rundgren,
Sugar Minott,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hasil Adkins,
Chris & Cosey,
Sam Rivers,
Aswad,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wolf Eyes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gregory Isaacs,
ABBA,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Silicon Teens,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
Sonic Youth,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.