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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kevin Saunderson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Model 500,
The Durutti Column,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Supertramp,
Scratch Acid,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Hood,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ken Boothe,
Lower 48,
Metal Thangz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter & Gordon,
Fear,
The Human League,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harmonia,
The Associates,
PIL,
Swell Maps,
Rotary Connection,
Cameo,
Shoche,
Magma,
Dorothy Ashby,
Spoonie Gee,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marvin Gaye,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Terry,
Peter and Kerry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Don Cherry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Pus,
Bauhaus,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Hill,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Pantaleimon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joey Negro,
Von Mondo,
The Mummies,
Max Romeo,
CMW,
the Association,
Black Flag,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Cale,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fad Gadget,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.