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 Belgium and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cymande to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Joe Finger,
Monolake,
kango's stein massive,
Essential Logic,
Lindisfarne,
The Busters,
Gang Green,
Yazoo,
Sex Pistols,
James White and The Blacks,
Boz Scaggs,
MC5,
Severed Heads,
Peter & Gordon,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk,
Marvin Gaye,
Warsaw,
The Seeds,
Pharoah Sanders,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter and Kerry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Clear Light,
The Cowsills,
Roxy Music,
Rekid,
Livin' Joy,
Moby Grape,
The New Christs,
Connie Case,
Rotary Connection,
Nils Olav,
The Count Five,
Leonard Cohen,
Mandrill,
Faust,
Animal Collective,
Arcadia,
Grey Daturas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Excepter,
Lebanon Hanover,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cameo,
Half Japanese,
Television,
Erasure,
John Lydon,
Funky Four + One,
Depeche Mode,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gap Band,
Dead Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.