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 Uganda and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Buzzcocks to the disco 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
10cc,
Glenn Branca,
Godley & Creme,
Morten Harket,
Jacob Miller,
Oneida,
The Vogues,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Iggy Pop,
The Busters,
CMW,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Wyatt,
Vladislav Delay,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Khruangbin,
ABC,
The Evens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Move,
Rotary Connection,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pop Group,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aaron Thompson,
Brass Construction,
Moby Grape,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
Fear,
Unwound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lindisfarne,
Freddie Wadling,
The Grass Roots,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Amon Düül II,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
Yusef Lateef,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Deakin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Janne Schatter,
Ice-T,
Ronan,
Underground Resistance,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Panda Bear,
Scratch Acid,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.