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 Maldives and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pantaleimon to the techno 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Pagans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Robert Hood,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
MC5,
June Days,
The Toasters,
Arthur Verocai,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
Avey Tare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Simply Red,
Essential Logic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Mad Mike,
Skaos,
Max Romeo,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pole,
Tubeway Army,
The Misunderstood,
Brick,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Roger Hodgson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rites of Spring,
The Durutti Column,
Warsaw,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spandau Ballet,
Mantronix,
The Monochrome Set,
The Moody Blues,
Charles Mingus,
The Selecter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dawn Penn,
Swell Maps,
The Wake,
Jimmy McGriff,
Panda Bear,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Porter Ricks,
Jawbox,
Freddie Wadling,
Wire,
Con Funk Shun,
Half Japanese,
Slave,
Q65,
Gichy Dan,
Graham Central Station,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.