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 Fiji and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro 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 Massinfluence to the grunge 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Drexciya,
Sonic Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Metal Thangz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Germs,
Lakeside,
the Bar-Kays,
Scion,
The Names,
Graham Central Station,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Icehouse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Youth Brigade,
Skarface,
Amon Düül,
Ultimate Spinach,
Depeche Mode,
The Moody Blues,
Moss Icon,
JFA,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Adolescents,
Lower 48,
Easy Going,
The Gories,
Dead Boys,
Fear,
The Cramps,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alton Ellis,
Kas Product,
Marc Almond,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lalann,
The Black Dice,
Yazoo,
La Düsseldorf,
Darondo,
Brick,
Sam Rivers,
Barry Ungar,
Mad Mike,
Susan Cadogan,
The Count Five,
Suicide,
Severed Heads,
Pierre Henry,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Star Department,
The Alarm Clocks,
Procol Harum,
Khruangbin,
The Blues Magoos,
Massinfluence,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.