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 Norway and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 Aaron Thompson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Throbbing Gristle,
New Order,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Modern Lovers,
AZ,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Accadde A,
Zapp,
Marvin Gaye,
The Trojans,
Cameo,
Essential Logic,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Adolescents,
Boz Scaggs,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Neon Judgement,
Rapeman,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Scientists,
MC5,
Bluetip,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joensuu 1685,
Gong,
10cc,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fatback Band,
Anakelly,
D'Angelo,
The Standells,
Barry Ungar,
Derrick Morgan,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fugs,
Cal Tjader,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Machine,
Hardrive,
the Slits,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crime,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visage,
DJ Sneak,
Shoche,
Flash Fearless,
Sight & Sound,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.