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 St Lucia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar 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 Josef K to the crunk 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Nico,
Joy Division,
Neu!,
Eli Mardock,
Graham Central Station,
Inner City,
New York Dolls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Byrd,
Pantaleimon,
Warsaw,
Lyres,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scan 7,
Nas,
Subhumans,
Gang of Four,
June Days,
Country Teasers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Charles Mingus,
One Last Wish,
June of 44,
Rapeman,
Rekid,
Quadrant,
Desert Stars,
Stereo Dub,
Moby Grape,
The Dirtbombs,
Alison Limerick,
Jacob Miller,
Technova,
D'Angelo,
ABBA,
Gang Gang Dance,
Livin' Joy,
Scratch Acid,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Doobie Brothers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sound,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Sherman,
Pagans,
Wasted Youth,
Dark Day,
Jeff Lynne,
Rotary Connection,
Donald Byrd,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.