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 Mali and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Blancmange,
Lucky Dragons,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Essential Logic,
Clear Light,
Lindisfarne,
UT,
Sonic Youth,
Tim Buckley,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Sonics,
Fad Gadget,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
Bobby Womack,
Moebius,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Bob Dylan,
Pylon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Whodini,
Thompson Twins,
Maurizio,
Duran Duran,
The Fire Engines,
Echospace,
The Smiths,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
E-Dancer,
Vladislav Delay,
Warsaw,
Joensuu 1685,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aloha Tigers,
Grandmaster Flash,
World's Most,
Das Ding,
June of 44,
Alphaville,
Flash Fearless,
Michelle Simonal,
Yusef Lateef,
The Litter,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wally Richardson,
Darondo,
LL Cool J,
Anthony Braxton,
Leonard Cohen,
Swell Maps,
Minnie Riperton,
Infiniti,
Jawbox,
Vainqueur,
These Immortal Souls,
a-ha,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.