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 Ghana and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skaos 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Kenny Larkin,
Whodini,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Excepter,
Delon & Dalcan,
ABC,
Davy DMX,
Boz Scaggs,
Crash Course in Science,
The Associates,
Tears for Fears,
James White and The Blacks,
Nirvana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alison Limerick,
Gichy Dan,
In Retrospect,
June of 44,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sister Nancy,
the Slits,
June Days,
Rotary Connection,
Joe Smooth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
Crispian St. Peters,
David Bowie,
The Kinks,
Kayak,
the Human League,
Ronan,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra,
Chris Corsano,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lakeside,
F. McDonald,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joyce Sims,
Supertramp,
Josef K,
Bob Dylan,
U.S. Maple,
Johnny Osbourne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Au Pairs,
Shuggie Otis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Slick Rick,
Mandrill,
The Fuzztones,
Bill Wells,
MDC,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.