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 Guinea and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Radio Birdman to the grime 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Lightning Bolt,
Zapp,
Rosa Yemen,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scientists,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
The Searchers,
Monks,
Funkadelic,
Alton Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skarface,
T.S.O.L.,
Bad Manners,
Davy DMX,
Easy Going,
Swans,
The American Breed,
Yaz,
Wings,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Index,
Kool Moe Dee,
La Düsseldorf,
Marvin Gaye,
Little Man,
Altered Images,
Arab on Radar,
Flamin' Groovies,
Patti Smith,
The Misunderstood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
Faraquet,
Outsiders,
Lakeside,
The Techniques,
Eric Dolphy,
Sun City Girls,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Thee Headcoats,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Pus,
The Sonics,
Zero Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Aloha Tigers,
the Germs,
Sällskapet,
Guru Guru,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flash Fearless,
The Last Poets,
Franke,
Pantaleimon,
The Trojans,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.