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 Lithuania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 T. Rex to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Animal Collective,
Harmonia,
Lebanon Hanover,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lyres,
June Days,
Kaleidoscope,
The Mojo Men,
Brand Nubian,
Eli Mardock,
The Motions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yusef Lateef,
Subhumans,
Echospace,
The Stooges,
Television,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Human League,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed,
Wally Richardson,
John Coltrane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Josef K,
The Searchers,
Lucky Dragons,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Almond,
Grey Daturas,
Sugar Minott,
Joensuu 1685,
Interpol,
Donald Byrd,
L. Decosne,
Tubeway Army,
Can,
New Order,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Slackers,
La Düsseldorf,
Ituana,
Harpers Bizarre,
Au Pairs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Aural Exciters,
One Last Wish,
ABBA,
the Sonics,
Skriet,
Con Funk Shun,
Janne Schatter,
Slick Rick,
Eve St. Jones,
Black Sheep,
Neu!,
Technova,
Pierre Henry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.