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 Morocco and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum 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 Supertramp to the techno 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Lightning Bolt,
The Index,
Mars,
Arab on Radar,
Pagans,
Infiniti,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Can,
Circle Jerks,
Sound Behaviour,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Copeland,
Scientists,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
Niagra,
Eurythmics,
Ituana,
Rapeman,
Pere Ubu,
The Pop Group,
Erasure,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The J.B.'s,
Terry Callier,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Near,
The Star Department,
Terrestrial Tones,
Index,
U.S. Maple,
The Standells,
Massinfluence,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
New York Dolls,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Bourne,
Ludus,
the Normal,
Sonic Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kas Product,
The Searchers,
Rekid,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Victims,
Dead Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Ponytail,
The Young Rascals,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.