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 Macedonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Josef K to the grunge 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Girls At Our Best!,
Von Mondo,
Sandy B,
Skaos,
Donny Hathaway,
Quadrant,
Schoolly D,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Blake Baxter,
Henry Cow,
Rakim,
Popol Vuh,
Gichy Dan,
Flipper,
Dave Gahan,
Stetsasonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Banda Bassotti,
Cameo,
The Index,
Scientists,
The Monochrome Set,
T.S.O.L.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Youth Brigade,
The Neon Judgement,
Jerry's Kids,
The Victims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Excepter,
Agent Orange,
a-ha,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Teasers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Byrd,
Model 500,
AZ,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Roxette,
Ponytail,
Andrew Hill,
Lyres,
Q and Not U,
Sight & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Knickerbockers,
The Smiths,
Sister Nancy,
Harry Pussy,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.