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 Ethiopia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lee Hazlewood to the electroclash 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Robert Wyatt,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kenny Larkin,
Pylon,
Marine Girls,
Nils Olav,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yusef Lateef,
Harmonia,
James White and The Blacks,
Man Parrish,
Beasts of Bourbon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Avey Tare,
Throbbing Gristle,
Theoretical Girls,
The Litter,
The Names,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jacques Brel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang Gang Dance,
Funky Four + One,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Metal Thangz,
Soft Machine,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smoke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Walker Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tomorrow,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minutemen,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rotary Connection,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sam Rivers,
Tommy Roe,
Bob Dylan,
Howard Jones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scan 7,
The Grass Roots,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minor Threat,
Talk Talk,
Symarip,
Eli Mardock,
U.S. Maple,
Reagan Youth,
Parry Music,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.