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 Thailand and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joy Division to the funk 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Joy Division,
The Cramps,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Misunderstood,
The Durutti Column,
Man Parrish,
a-ha,
The Names,
Soft Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aaron Thompson,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Toasters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scan 7,
Sällskapet,
Fluxion,
Q65,
Quadrant,
The Fortunes,
Circle Jerks,
Al Stewart,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Human League,
Bronski Beat,
A Certain Ratio,
Funkadelic,
Kas Product,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Techniques,
Joyce Sims,
the Slits,
Godley & Creme,
Rotary Connection,
The Mummies,
Talk Talk,
48th St. Collective,
Rakim,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
Magma,
Pylon,
Heaven 17,
Intrusion,
The Angels of Light,
Sparks,
The Zeros,
Todd Terry,
L. Decosne,
Andrew Hill,
Brand Nubian,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Bourne,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.