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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 Scratch Acid to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Moon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Kerrie Biddell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Cecil Taylor,
Camberwell Now,
Motorama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker,
The Slackers,
The Cramps,
PIL,
Blake Baxter,
Nick Fraelich,
cv313,
Ultimate Spinach,
T.S.O.L.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Agent Orange,
JFA,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Halsall,
Joensuu 1685,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
FM Einheit,
Q and Not U,
Suicide,
The Young Rascals,
Desert Stars,
Crooked Eye,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Albert Ayler,
The Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
Technova,
In Retrospect,
The Residents,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sun City Girls,
Quadrant,
Marine Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scientists,
The Tremeloes,
Kerri Chandler,
Hashim,
Underground Resistance,
Depeche Mode,
the Slits,
The Associates,
Clear Light,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Searchers,
Nas,
Model 500,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.