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 Philippines and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 China Crisis to the jazz 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Byron Stingily,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ten City,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scrapy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cecil Taylor,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tim Buckley,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Y Pants,
In Retrospect,
The Index,
The Smiths,
The Golliwogs,
Mars,
The United States of America,
Accadde A,
Fluxion,
Marvin Gaye,
Niagra,
The Monks,
The Moleskins,
Oneida,
Minny Pops,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ice-T,
Janne Schatter,
Animal Collective,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
UT,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Barracudas,
Cybotron,
The Doors,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DJ Sneak,
Soul Sonic Force,
MDC,
Sister Nancy,
Delta 5,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Zeros,
E-Dancer,
The Offenders,
The Count Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Invisible,
Dave Gahan,
Symarip,
Dead Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Shuggie Otis,
Connie Case,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.