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 Solomon Islands and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare 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 Kevin Saunderson to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Fall,
Sugar Minott,
Suicide,
Altered Images,
Tom Boy,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
Panda Bear,
Spandau Ballet,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Halsall,
Magma,
Lakeside,
Monolake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
a-ha,
Henry Cow,
The Trojans,
Davy DMX,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
The Gap Band,
The Move,
Black Sheep,
Guru Guru,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Real Kids,
Sixth Finger,
kango's stein massive,
Yazoo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Urselle,
Roy Ayers,
The Golliwogs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Swell Maps,
The Neon Judgement,
the Normal,
Letta Mbulu,
The Wake,
The Slackers,
Main Source,
Peter and Kerry,
Nico,
Rhythm & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skaos,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
Kayak,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Durutti Column,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dawn Penn,
Wings,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.