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 Nepal and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
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 snare 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 the Bar-Kays to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
The Neon Judgement,
Crooked Eye,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Juan Atkins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Duran Duran,
Archie Shepp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sun City Girls,
EPMD,
Pantytec,
The Fall,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Five Americans,
The Slackers,
Guru Guru,
Todd Terry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MC5,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stetsasonic,
Zero Boys,
In Retrospect,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joensuu 1685,
Sixth Finger,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Wake,
Babytalk,
Japan,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Victims,
Ken Boothe,
Symarip,
AZ,
The Mummies,
The Fortunes,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
Byron Stingily,
Marmalade,
Arab on Radar,
R.M.O.,
DJ Style,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cosmic Jokers,
FM Einheit,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker,
Ossler,
Rotary Connection,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eve St. Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra,
Oblivians,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.