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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barry Ungar to the rap 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Television Personalities,
Mark Hollis,
Cybotron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Y Pants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donny Hathaway,
Fifty Foot Hose,
F. McDonald,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bush Tetras,
World's Most,
Stereo Dub,
Jeru the Damaja,
Byron Stingily,
the Germs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faraquet,
Darondo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reagan Youth,
Camberwell Now,
Index,
Sugar Minott,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Buzzcocks,
The Moody Blues,
Sister Nancy,
The Standells,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Zeros,
Whodini,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ludus,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Gap Band,
Pylon,
Average White Band,
The Star Department,
Matthew Bourne,
Flash Fearless,
Hasil Adkins,
Pere Ubu,
Eddi Front,
Arthur Verocai,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
Althea and Donna,
DJ Sneak,
cv313,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mojo Men,
Scion,
Alphaville,
The J.B.'s,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.