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 Sweden and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Urselle 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Arcadia,
The Evens,
Eddi Front,
Alison Limerick,
the Sonics,
The Offenders,
Talk Talk,
Bill Wells,
The Birthday Party,
The Young Rascals,
The Last Poets,
The Fall,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Malaria!,
Excepter,
Funkadelic,
Royal Trux,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gories,
Cal Tjader,
Minnie Riperton,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Enemy,
PIL,
KRS-One,
Rhythm & Sound,
Barry Ungar,
The Doors,
Colin Newman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Idris Muhammad,
Warsaw,
H. Thieme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Victims,
Gregory Isaacs,
EPMD,
The Wake,
Shuggie Otis,
Icehouse,
Faraquet,
Panda Bear,
Oneida,
In Retrospect,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Moby Grape,
Peter & Gordon,
Motorama,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker,
Metal Thangz,
Animal Collective,
Cybotron,
Ken Boothe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hardrive,
Fat Boys,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.