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 Cuba and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 PIL 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Al Stewart,
Von Mondo,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun Ra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Sonics,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dennis Brown,
June of 44,
Max Romeo,
Eddi Front,
E-Dancer,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rosa Yemen,
Moby Grape,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warren Ellis,
Sarah Menescal,
Mr. Review,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cybotron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Los Fastidios,
Black Pus,
Barrington Levy,
Accadde A,
ABBA,
Kas Product,
Sällskapet,
Kaleidoscope,
Q65,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Slits,
Marine Girls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
JFA,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Todd Rundgren,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jerry's Kids,
Public Enemy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Interpol,
Animal Collective,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mad Mike,
Barry Ungar,
Loose Ends,
John Cale,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.