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 Guinea-Bissau and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Alarm Clocks 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
The Motions,
Alphaville,
Alison Limerick,
These Immortal Souls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Faust,
Adolescents,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flash Fearless,
Depeche Mode,
Make Up,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Todd Terry,
Ten City,
The Mojo Men,
John Foxx,
ABC,
The New Christs,
Mr. Review,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
U.S. Maple,
Barry Ungar,
The Monks,
The Zeros,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deepchord,
Throbbing Gristle,
Chris Corsano,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eden Ahbez,
Whodini,
The Alarm Clocks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Barbara Tucker,
Oneida,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick Morgan,
Scan 7,
Goldenarms,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bang On A Can,
The Buckinghams,
Ultra Naté,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sam Rivers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Görl,
Deadbeat,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.