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 Chad and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Echospace to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Derrick May,
Ultravox,
The Stooges,
Girls At Our Best!,
EPMD,
Hot Snakes,
Inner City,
Grey Daturas,
The Gap Band,
Alphaville,
Brand Nubian,
Mars,
Fat Boys,
Dennis Brown,
The Gladiators,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David Axelrod,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sister Nancy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Five Americans,
Goldenarms,
Dawn Penn,
Rekid,
Gichy Dan,
David McCallum,
Von Mondo,
Freddie Wadling,
Avey Tare,
The Gories,
ABC,
Hasil Adkins,
Albert Ayler,
Radio Birdman,
The Fuzztones,
Negative Approach,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Starr,
JFA,
Funkadelic,
Grandmaster Flash,
LL Cool J,
The Cramps,
The Skatalites,
X-101,
Neil Young,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New Age Steppers,
Desert Stars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Slackers,
The Fortunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
Cybotron,
Scion,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
PIL,
MC5,
the Soft Cell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.