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 Canada and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grime 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Circle Jerks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Simply Red,
The Neon Judgement,
Outsiders,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scion,
Young Marble Giants,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kayak,
Warsaw,
X-102,
The Martian,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nation of Ulysses,
Parry Music,
The Fire Engines,
Donny Hathaway,
Skriet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Iggy Pop,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Reed,
Delta 5,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fluxion,
Lee Hazlewood,
Howard Jones,
Stetsasonic,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
The Zeros,
The Gap Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Shuggie Otis,
The Smiths,
Banda Bassotti,
ABBA,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hardrive,
the Sonics,
Ten City,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scan 7,
Graham Central Station,
The Evens,
Funky Four + One,
Saccharine Trust,
Heaven 17,
Duran Duran,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.