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 Albania and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Japan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Dave Gahan,
Ten City,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Golliwogs,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Aaron Thompson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ken Boothe,
Rakim,
R.M.O.,
Alison Limerick,
Liliput,
Suburban Knight,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echospace,
La Düsseldorf,
The Monochrome Set,
Brass Construction,
Alton Ellis,
Average White Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Throbbing Gristle,
Faust,
Thee Headcoats,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Donny Hathaway,
Grey Daturas,
Davy DMX,
Skriet,
Nas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Guru Guru,
The Associates,
Eric Dolphy,
Mantronix,
Cluster,
Lou Reed,
Procol Harum,
Make Up,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Excepter,
Nik Kershaw,
Oneida,
Brothers Johnson,
Second Layer,
The Martian,
Saccharine Trust,
Drexciya,
Maurizio,
Henry Cow,
The Pop Group,
Shoche,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nico,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.