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 United Kingdom and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Barclay James Harvest to the rap 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
Faust,
Funky Four + One,
Patti Smith,
Black Flag,
The Toasters,
The Black Dice,
Eric Copeland,
The Fuzztones,
Main Source,
Tom Boy,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Sherman,
Monolake,
Eric Dolphy,
Massinfluence,
Goldenarms,
The Monochrome Set,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Sam Rivers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ludus,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Piero Umiliani,
Au Pairs,
The Motions,
Robert Hood,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Clarke,
Darondo,
Flash Fearless,
Reuben Wilson,
Yellowson,
John Coltrane,
Donald Byrd,
Matthew Bourne,
MDC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brothers Johnson,
Don Cherry,
Japan,
Sex Pistols,
kango's stein massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Cure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fugazi,
The Human League,
Albert Ayler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skarface,
the Human League,
Harmonia,
Dead Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.