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 Guinea-Bissau and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Stooges to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Juan Atkins,
La Düsseldorf,
Wolf Eyes,
Whodini,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Freddie Wadling,
Model 500,
Anakelly,
Donny Hathaway,
Section 25,
Mo-Dettes,
Archie Shepp,
Letta Mbulu,
DJ Sneak,
the Normal,
Tropical Tobacco,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
cv313,
The Cowsills,
Mantronix,
Bobby Sherman,
Ten City,
Black Flag,
Banda Bassotti,
the Fania All-Stars,
Von Mondo,
New York Dolls,
The Doors,
Ponytail,
R.M.O.,
Rites of Spring,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fugazi,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Toasters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Television,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Index,
The Moody Blues,
Moss Icon,
Nas,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joy Division,
Toni Rubio,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Slackers,
The Pretty Things,
Desert Stars,
The United States of America,
New Order,
Technova,
Connie Case,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.