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 United Kingdom and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Grey Daturas to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Adolescents,
the Soft Cell,
Gichy Dan,
Livin' Joy,
This Heat,
Oneida,
Barry Ungar,
Panda Bear,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monks,
Nas,
Severed Heads,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funkadelic,
Harmonia,
Juan Atkins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Oblivians,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Desert Stars,
Ponytail,
Rites of Spring,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cure,
Erykah Badu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Neil Young,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Modern Lovers,
Massinfluence,
MDC,
Mandrill,
Ultravox,
Sugar Minott,
Al Stewart,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marine Girls,
Organ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ronnie Foster,
Underground Resistance,
Symarip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Eli Mardock,
The Slits,
Monolake,
The Stooges,
Davy DMX,
Dave Gahan,
Jacques Brel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Interpol,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.