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 Ireland and from Stockholm.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Public Image Ltd. to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
the Bar-Kays,
Don Cherry,
Easy Going,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shuggie Otis,
Pylon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Glenn Branca,
The Black Dice,
Alton Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
U.S. Maple,
A Certain Ratio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alice Coltrane,
Sound Behaviour,
Juan Atkins,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lalann,
Crooked Eye,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Slits,
The Vogues,
David Bowie,
PIL,
Average White Band,
The Angels of Light,
Wally Richardson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Malaria!,
Moss Icon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Letta Mbulu,
Von Mondo,
Shoche,
Agitation Free,
Little Man,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
KRS-One,
Matthew Bourne,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
Max Romeo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lucky Dragons,
Deadbeat,
John Foxx,
Magazine,
Smog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Pretty Things,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Model 500,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Dennis Brown,
Kayak,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.