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 Bangladesh and from London.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eden Ahbez to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Fugazi,
Inner City,
Crispy Ambulance,
X-102,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ludus,
PIL,
Reagan Youth,
The Offenders,
Panda Bear,
Ice-T,
Nico,
Brothers Johnson,
Shoche,
The Evens,
Ituana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blancmange,
Joensuu 1685,
Sällskapet,
Eric Copeland,
Terry Callier,
The Dirtbombs,
Cheater Slicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tubeway Army,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bill Near,
DJ Sneak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sound Behaviour,
The Grass Roots,
Maurizio,
Ponytail,
Television,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Subhumans,
Nas,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Flash Fearless,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
Black Flag,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
ABBA,
Stetsasonic,
The Black Dice,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
Kaleidoscope,
The Dead C,
Scratch Acid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Underground Resistance,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.