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 Italy and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Donald Fagen 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 Swans to the techno 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fire Engines,
Marmalade,
This Heat,
The Techniques,
Shoche,
X-101,
Quadrant,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lower 48,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hoover,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
Yellowson,
Kerri Chandler,
Yusef Lateef,
Duran Duran,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bluetip,
Aswad,
Urselle,
Gang Green,
Lou Christie,
Pylon,
Todd Rundgren,
Interpol,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Don Cherry,
Fela Kuti,
Hasil Adkins,
The Blackbyrds,
Moebius,
PIL,
Moby Grape,
OOIOO,
Soul Sonic Force,
Monolake,
Bad Manners,
Das Ding,
Grey Daturas,
John Lydon,
Desert Stars,
Reagan Youth,
UT,
Schoolly D,
Motorama,
Bobby Sherman,
Nico,
Arab on Radar,
Alice Coltrane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scientists,
Albert Ayler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.