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 Mauritius and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gichy Dan to the jazz 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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Brick,
Leonard Cohen,
Public Enemy,
Warsaw,
Moby Grape,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hashim,
Morten Harket,
Das Ding,
Q and Not U,
The Young Rascals,
Scion,
Nick Fraelich,
JFA,
Hardrive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Bananas,
Faraquet,
Harry Pussy,
Quadrant,
Surgeon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Can,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fluxion,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
Grauzone,
Lucky Dragons,
Josef K,
The Birthday Party,
Isaac Hayes,
The Victims,
David Axelrod,
Simply Red,
Thompson Twins,
Laurel Aitken,
Wally Richardson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mission of Burma,
The Cowsills,
Nirvana,
Audionom,
The Cramps,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Guru Guru,
Vainqueur,
MC5,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terry Callier,
Black Moon,
Gong,
Whodini,
Youth Brigade,
Sixth Finger,
Pylon,
Sister Nancy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.