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 Montenegro and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joey Negro to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Sällskapet,
Tubeway Army,
Eve St. Jones,
Bauhaus,
Archie Shepp,
Johnny Osbourne,
In Retrospect,
Wasted Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minor Threat,
Michelle Simonal,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Hill,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sparks,
Scan 7,
Faraquet,
The Neon Judgement,
JFA,
The Gap Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cameo,
Quantec,
Liliput,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Tommy Roe,
Rapeman,
K-Klass,
Ituana,
the Soft Cell,
The Buckinghams,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Niagra,
The American Breed,
Oneida,
Brothers Johnson,
Quadrant,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gregory Isaacs,
Monolake,
a-ha,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skaos,
Franke,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mark Hollis,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cure,
Todd Terry,
Skriet,
Vladislav Delay,
Second Layer,
Connie Case,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.