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 Samoa and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Duran Duran to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
The J.B.'s,
X-101,
Sound Behaviour,
Pantytec,
Terry Callier,
The Pretty Things,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Outsiders,
Bobby Sherman,
Harmonia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Cure,
The Associates,
Jimmy McGriff,
10cc,
Henry Cow,
Thee Headcoats,
Cecil Taylor,
Glenn Branca,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brothers Johnson,
Public Enemy,
Siglo XX,
Mars,
cv313,
Minor Threat,
The Blackbyrds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
Charles Mingus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Birthday Party,
Don Cherry,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fortunes,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultra Naté,
KRS-One,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Depeche Mode,
Fugazi,
June of 44,
Rotary Connection,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Qualms,
Robert Görl,
Ludus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Y Pants,
Junior Murvin,
Brass Construction,
The Gladiators,
Neil Young,
Rosa Yemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Offenders,
Saccharine Trust,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.