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 Cameroon and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Iggy Pop to the disco 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
The Modern Lovers,
The Stooges,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Grass Roots,
Sight & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Altered Images,
Gichy Dan,
Rapeman,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Steve Hackett,
The Leaves,
Thee Headcoats,
Wasted Youth,
Can,
The Residents,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultravox,
Dual Sessions,
Audionom,
La Düsseldorf,
Erykah Badu,
Marmalade,
Massinfluence,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glenn Branca,
Joey Negro,
FM Einheit,
Cheater Slicks,
Nas,
Danielle Patucci,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grauzone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Evens,
Alison Limerick,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-101,
LL Cool J,
The Seeds,
The Beau Brummels,
David McCallum,
Harmonia,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Skarface,
Erasure,
Avey Tare,
a-ha,
The Golliwogs,
Negative Approach,
Yellowson,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.