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 Syria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pierre Henry to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
The Fall,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MC5,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
D'Angelo,
F. McDonald,
Fear,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Terry,
Rekid,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stockholm Monsters,
Icehouse,
Harmonia,
the Normal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
Faraquet,
Derrick May,
Smog,
Maleditus Sound,
Malaria!,
The Walker Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
The Human League,
Judy Mowatt,
Erykah Badu,
Motorama,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Dirtbombs,
Kaleidoscope,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Terry Callier,
a-ha,
Essential Logic,
Soft Cell,
ABC,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grandmaster Flash,
Darondo,
The Fortunes,
Radio Birdman,
The Monks,
The Mummies,
Marc Almond,
Black Moon,
The Angels of Light,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Cure,
Massinfluence,
Kas Product,
Zapp,
The Victims,
Audionom,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.