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 Luxembourg and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Gastr Del Sol to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Roger Hodgson,
Kayak,
Oneida,
Gastr Del Sol,
Flash Fearless,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
Wasted Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Y Pants,
The Human League,
The Moleskins,
Swell Maps,
the Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
T. Rex,
JFA,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
June of 44,
The Grass Roots,
FM Einheit,
the Slits,
Basic Channel,
Khruangbin,
Niagra,
Connie Case,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Leonard Cohen,
Blossom Toes,
Sandy B,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
Little Man,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronnie Foster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ken Boothe,
The Gories,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Cecil Taylor,
Joe Finger,
Jacob Miller,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Divine Comedy,
The Mojo Men,
Skaos,
kango's stein massive,
Avey Tare,
The Fall,
John Cale,
Soft Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.