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 Belgium and from Houston.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 The Saints to the crunk 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ken Boothe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Glenn Branca,
Crooked Eye,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camberwell Now,
The Fugs,
KRS-One,
Zero Boys,
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Adolescents,
Fela Kuti,
Young Marble Giants,
The Grass Roots,
Bang On A Can,
The Remains,
cv313,
PIL,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bush Tetras,
Idris Muhammad,
Guru Guru,
Japan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Shadows of Knight,
Althea and Donna,
The Cure,
The Associates,
Groovy Waters,
Mandrill,
Depeche Mode,
The Monochrome Set,
Angry Samoans,
Maleditus Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nils Olav,
UT,
Rufus Thomas,
Urselle,
Soft Machine,
Ituana,
The Count Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Rhythm & Sound,
EPMD,
The Gun Club,
Camouflage,
The Saints,
Tears for Fears,
David Bowie,
Mantronix,
K-Klass,
The Trojans,
The Real Kids,
The Raincoats,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.