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 Peru and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Japan to the rock 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Swell Maps,
The Residents,
The American Breed,
Eric Dolphy,
This Heat,
The Monks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Throbbing Gristle,
Fear,
The Kinks,
Harmonia,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
UT,
China Crisis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Country Teasers,
Jacques Brel,
Patti Smith,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
Ronnie Foster,
Lyres,
Symarip,
Gabor Szabo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Invisible,
Donald Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
The Trojans,
Ossler,
Schoolly D,
The Skatalites,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Trumans Water,
The Stooges,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
James White and The Blacks,
Rakim,
Moebius,
Talk Talk,
Procol Harum,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Infiniti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül,
Dave Gahan,
Kevin Saunderson,
cv313,
Donny Hathaway,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Byron Stingily,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.