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 Norway and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Depeche Mode to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes 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?
Bobby Sherman,
Morten Harket,
Michelle Simonal,
Moss Icon,
Dark Day,
Deadbeat,
Darondo,
The Sonics,
Brick,
Skaos,
The Smiths,
Smog,
Minny Pops,
Cheater Slicks,
Jawbox,
Television,
Half Japanese,
X-102,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fat Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Nick Fraelich,
Babytalk,
Magma,
R.M.O.,
The Invisible,
Reagan Youth,
Swans,
Adolescents,
Kayak,
Radiohead,
Hot Snakes,
Colin Newman,
Donald Byrd,
Barry Ungar,
Cybotron,
Niagra,
The Leaves,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alice Coltrane,
Fugazi,
Amon Düül II,
The Birthday Party,
The Searchers,
Quando Quango,
Rites of Spring,
The Raincoats,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Slits,
Mantronix,
The Five Americans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
a-ha,
Section 25,
Rapeman,
Kas Product,
Deepchord,
Blake Baxter,
Desert Stars,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.