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 Uruguay and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Los Fastidios to the jazz 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fugs,
Albert Ayler,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liliput,
Stetsasonic,
Faraquet,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cheater Slicks,
MDC,
Oneida,
Au Pairs,
Nik Kershaw,
Angry Samoans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Half Japanese,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Fraelich,
The Human League,
Moebius,
Jeff Mills,
The Smoke,
Panda Bear,
Parry Music,
Tubeway Army,
Kas Product,
Alphaville,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kaleidoscope,
Minor Threat,
Buzzcocks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The New Christs,
The Standells,
Fat Boys,
Radiohead,
Das Ding,
Kayak,
Archie Shepp,
Lebanon Hanover,
Donny Hathaway,
Erasure,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
Porter Ricks,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
48th St. Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Alarm Clocks,
AZ,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DNA,
Tommy Roe,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.