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 Nicaragua and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joy Division,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül II,
Accadde A,
Wasted Youth,
The Detroit Cobras,
Joe Finger,
Josef K,
Wolf Eyes,
JFA,
Kas Product,
Slick Rick,
Ohio Players,
Idris Muhammad,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Wyatt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
Rufus Thomas,
Laurel Aitken,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Order,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Icehouse,
Faraquet,
Harpers Bizarre,
Spandau Ballet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
The Vogues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Stiv Bators,
Mark Hollis,
Nirvana,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Harry Pussy,
Inner City,
The Victims,
Das Ding,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Schoolly D,
Cybotron,
Matthew Bourne,
The Misunderstood,
FM Einheit,
Jacques Brel,
Smog,
Can,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Fraelich,
Minor Threat,
Bluetip,
Average White Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fat Boys,
Visage,
Jandek,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.