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 Austria and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet 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 Sonic Youth to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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 Standells,
Young Marble Giants,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mr. Review,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Adolescents,
The Angels of Light,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Finger,
Schoolly D,
Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Soul II Soul,
A Certain Ratio,
Tom Boy,
Cybotron,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Byrd,
DJ Style,
Fad Gadget,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Slits,
Kayak,
Japan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Parry Music,
One Last Wish,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pere Ubu,
The Victims,
Mo-Dettes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Grass Roots,
The Skatalites,
Joe Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Little Man,
Can,
Archie Shepp,
Ultimate Spinach,
Isaac Hayes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Red Krayola,
Cymande,
Agitation Free,
The Misunderstood,
Harry Pussy,
The Raincoats,
Amazonics,
The Remains,
Delta 5,
Sister Nancy,
X-Ray Spex,
The Selecter,
Unwound,
Panda Bear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.