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 Azerbaijan and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Leonard Cohen to the disco 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jandek,
OOIOO,
Vainqueur,
Bang On A Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Moby Grape,
Symarip,
Terrestrial Tones,
Glenn Branca,
Main Source,
Yusef Lateef,
Public Enemy,
Camouflage,
Au Pairs,
June Days,
Pierre Henry,
Arcadia,
Eddi Front,
Accadde A,
AZ,
Stetsasonic,
The Mojo Men,
Reagan Youth,
F. McDonald,
Radiohead,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gichy Dan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pere Ubu,
Minnie Riperton,
Outsiders,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Alarm Clocks,
Television Personalities,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marc Almond,
The Standells,
Toni Rubio,
The Monochrome Set,
the Sonics,
Kenny Larkin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Seeds,
Dennis Brown,
Young Marble Giants,
Erykah Badu,
Oblivians,
Lee Hazlewood,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
China Crisis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.