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 Georgia and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Scion to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
The Kinks,
Black Moon,
June Days,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Neon Judgement,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tomorrow,
Faust,
Robert Görl,
Camberwell Now,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Isaac Hayes,
L. Decosne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gories,
The Standells,
Harmonia,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yellowson,
Grauzone,
Henry Cow,
Theoretical Girls,
Gang of Four,
MC5,
Slave,
Marmalade,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Wyatt,
Country Teasers,
The United States of America,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Leaves,
Crash Course in Science,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mandrill,
Althea and Donna,
Danielle Patucci,
Jesper Dahlback,
Los Fastidios,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roy Ayers,
Camouflage,
Monolake,
John Cale,
Drive Like Jehu,
R.M.O.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cheater Slicks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Litter,
Bronski Beat,
Brothers Johnson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.