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 East Timor and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grime 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Kas Product,
the Slits,
Curtis Mayfield,
Easy Going,
the Human League,
Lucky Dragons,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oneida,
Toni Rubio,
Absolute Body Control,
Vainqueur,
Barrington Levy,
L. Decosne,
The United States of America,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Hood,
Peter & Gordon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Girls At Our Best!,
E-Dancer,
Blancmange,
The Sonics,
Darondo,
Sun City Girls,
Fear,
Malaria!,
Grandmaster Flash,
H. Thieme,
One Last Wish,
Bill Near,
World's Most,
Robert Görl,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gabor Szabo,
Mr. Review,
Crispian St. Peters,
MC5,
Silicon Teens,
Jacob Miller,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sound Behaviour,
The Evens,
Moebius,
Cybotron,
Brand Nubian,
The Litter,
Ten City,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Organ,
Slave,
Wasted Youth,
Steve Hackett,
Flipper,
Anakelly,
The Black Dice,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Technova,
John Cale,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.