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 Brazil and from Shanghai.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Skarface to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Remains,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
The Martian,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Smoke,
Matthew Halsall,
Circle Jerks,
Excepter,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Christie,
Talk Talk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Toasters,
The United States of America,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Connie Case,
Vainqueur,
Moby Grape,
Suburban Knight,
E-Dancer,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MC5,
Terry Callier,
Mary Jane Girls,
Negative Approach,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Main Source,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Q and Not U,
Unrelated Segments,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
LL Cool J,
The Leaves,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wings,
Pagans,
Lower 48,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Raincoats,
PIL,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway,
Tom Boy,
Monks,
Tomorrow,
Minutemen,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gichy Dan,
Supertramp,
Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.