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 Tanzania and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Soft Machine to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Chris & Cosey,
Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Tubeway Army,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Swans,
Wasted Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DNA,
Young Marble Giants,
Pierre Henry,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Television,
The Index,
The Buckinghams,
Aural Exciters,
Liliput,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cybotron,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skarface,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bootsy Collins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rekid,
Lungfish,
Scientists,
U.S. Maple,
Crispy Ambulance,
Leonard Cohen,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Duran Duran,
Susan Cadogan,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fugs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dirtbombs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
D'Angelo,
Flipper,
Adolescents,
Hoover,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Main Source,
the Human League,
Mary Jane Girls,
E-Dancer,
Gang Green,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.