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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Interpol to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Scan 7,
Agitation Free,
Sonic Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Fela Kuti,
Jandek,
Joensuu 1685,
Scratch Acid,
Simply Red,
The Invisible,
R.M.O.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deepchord,
Television Personalities,
The Fugs,
Eden Ahbez,
Tommy Roe,
Barrington Levy,
The Golliwogs,
Patti Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Cymande,
Warren Ellis,
Harmonia,
Franke,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
K-Klass,
Sight & Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad,
The Evens,
Marc Almond,
Blossom Toes,
Bauhaus,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
Black Sheep,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Soft Cell,
Adolescents,
John Coltrane,
The Angels of Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Selecter,
Malaria!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Radiohead,
Unwound,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
the Germs,
Little Man,
The Slackers,
Aaron Thompson,
Eurythmics,
Terrestrial Tones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.