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 Hungary and from Hong Kong.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 Peter & Gordon to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unrelated Segments,
Kool Moe Dee,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
World's Most,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Birthday Party,
Avey Tare,
Johnny Clarke,
Aloha Tigers,
Spandau Ballet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
This Heat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Delta 5,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Flag,
Q65,
Essential Logic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
10cc,
Public Enemy,
Erasure,
Suburban Knight,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Andrew Hill,
The Monochrome Set,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sparks,
ABBA,
Panda Bear,
Donny Hathaway,
Swell Maps,
EPMD,
Thompson Twins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
Idris Muhammad,
Pierre Henry,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
E-Dancer,
Nik Kershaw,
Pulsallama,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mandrill,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
Maleditus Sound,
X-102,
Anakelly,
Cameo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.