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 Singapore and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar 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 Essential Logic to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Hardrive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lakeside,
Swell Maps,
the Fania All-Stars,
Popol Vuh,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fuzztones,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Wyatt,
The Names,
CMW,
Hashim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Henry Cow,
Quantec,
Supertramp,
Glenn Branca,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Pretty Things,
Darondo,
Depeche Mode,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Spoonie Gee,
Kerri Chandler,
Brass Construction,
Whodini,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fall,
Soft Cell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
MC5,
Crooked Eye,
Rosa Yemen,
Tubeway Army,
The Human League,
Siglo XX,
Minutemen,
Schoolly D,
AZ,
The Count Five,
48th St. Collective,
Khruangbin,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sound Behaviour,
The Red Krayola,
Von Mondo,
Morten Harket,
Eurythmics,
Circle Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gun Club,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.