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 Poland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pagans to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Laurel Aitken,
This Heat,
Nik Kershaw,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stiv Bators,
Soul II Soul,
ABC,
Josef K,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cramps,
Sound Behaviour,
Essential Logic,
Blake Baxter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sex Pistols,
Basic Channel,
CMW,
The Associates,
Bill Wells,
Jacob Miller,
Guru Guru,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Electric Prunes,
Harry Pussy,
Soulsonic Force,
David Bowie,
The Smiths,
Godley & Creme,
Chris Corsano,
Man Eating Sloth,
AZ,
New Order,
Moby Grape,
Neil Young,
Qualms,
Gichy Dan,
The Young Rascals,
Metal Thangz,
EPMD,
New York Dolls,
kango's stein massive,
One Last Wish,
The Skatalites,
Pylon,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerrie Biddell,
Motorama,
The Shadows of Knight,
Arab on Radar,
T. Rex,
Eric Dolphy,
The Techniques,
The Durutti Column,
David McCallum,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.