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 Sudan and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Dead C to the techno 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Skriet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Clarke,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Görl,
Saccharine Trust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roxy Music,
Ken Boothe,
Cal Tjader,
The Slits,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Brass Construction,
Gastr Del Sol,
Quando Quango,
Excepter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flipper,
Ice-T,
10cc,
The Walker Brothers,
Harmonia,
Crash Course in Science,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Zeros,
Lou Christie,
Nick Fraelich,
Rhythm & Sound,
Model 500,
Gang of Four,
Ultravox,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ituana,
Pole,
The Smiths,
Jacob Miller,
OOIOO,
Faraquet,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slackers,
The Moody Blues,
Max Romeo,
Soft Machine,
Roy Ayers,
Youth Brigade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marmalade,
Suicide,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Iggy Pop,
Blake Baxter,
Deepchord,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dead C,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
a-ha,
Aloha Tigers,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.