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 Guinea and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Detroit Cobras to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Amon Düül II,
The Move,
Ludus,
the Swans,
KRS-One,
Pylon,
Cameo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donald Byrd,
Quando Quango,
Trumans Water,
Joe Finger,
Q and Not U,
New Age Steppers,
Visage,
Schoolly D,
Flash Fearless,
The Count Five,
Pierre Henry,
Hoover,
Judy Mowatt,
Godley & Creme,
Tim Buckley,
The United States of America,
The Associates,
Ash Ra Tempel,
AZ,
Camberwell Now,
Public Enemy,
Kayak,
John Foxx,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Sheep,
Agent Orange,
Guru Guru,
Mark Hollis,
Gichy Dan,
Heaven 17,
Absolute Body Control,
Theoretical Girls,
Mandrill,
the Slits,
Kerri Chandler,
Excepter,
Rufus Thomas,
Rotary Connection,
Agitation Free,
Sun Ra,
Main Source,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Wyatt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boredoms,
Chris & Cosey,
Roger Hodgson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Warsaw,
Glambeats Corp.,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.