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 Kitts & Nevis and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fire Engines to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Slackers,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alphaville,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Graham Central Station,
Warsaw,
Joy Division,
Hoover,
Little Man,
The Mummies,
Marmalade,
Easy Going,
Visage,
Second Layer,
Steve Hackett,
Duran Duran,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Swell Maps,
Nas,
Danielle Patucci,
The Durutti Column,
Audionom,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
Basic Channel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camberwell Now,
Icehouse,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lindisfarne,
The Misunderstood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Slits,
Skaos,
The Dead C,
Scratch Acid,
The Barracudas,
DJ Sneak,
Black Flag,
Masters at Work,
Theoretical Girls,
Erasure,
Marcia Griffiths,
Average White Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Ossler,
Radiohead,
The Motions,
Fela Kuti,
Al Stewart,
These Immortal Souls,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bush Tetras,
X-101,
Terrestrial Tones,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.