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 Turkey 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Glenn Branca to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
Piero Umiliani,
David McCallum,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Second Layer,
Camouflage,
The Sound,
Scan 7,
Roy Ayers,
Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
Essential Logic,
Trumans Water,
Q and Not U,
Nico,
The Fire Engines,
Audionom,
The Gories,
Theoretical Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Maleditus Sound,
L. Decosne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultravox,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang Gang Dance,
Godley & Creme,
Lucky Dragons,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlback,
Con Funk Shun,
The Index,
The Monks,
Vladislav Delay,
Gong,
Sound Behaviour,
Pussy Galore,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric Dolphy,
The Blackbyrds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marc Almond,
Crispian St. Peters,
Royal Trux,
This Heat,
Average White Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiohead,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Lydon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.