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 Egypt and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Panda Bear to the disco 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Soul II Soul,
Warren Ellis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Siglo XX,
Sparks,
The Music Machine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thompson Twins,
The Human League,
The Blues Magoos,
CMW,
Accadde A,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
Monolake,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Urselle,
Bobby Sherman,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
Scientists,
Scott Walker,
Tears for Fears,
Rites of Spring,
Drexciya,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
The Victims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
Cluster,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Finger,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Normal,
The Fugs,
Roxette,
Kas Product,
PIL,
The Mojo Men,
Pere Ubu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash,
James White and The Blacks,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vainqueur,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marc Almond,
Lee Hazlewood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
Fluxion,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.