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 Taiwan and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Public Image Ltd. to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Sparks,
Jesper Dahlback,
MDC,
kango's stein massive,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter & Gordon,
Joey Negro,
Howard Jones,
Ultra Naté,
Zapp,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jawbox,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
Harry Pussy,
Unwound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Moon,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
Subhumans,
DJ Style,
The Sonics,
Nico,
Robert Hood,
Ohio Players,
U.S. Maple,
ABBA,
Cluster,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bush Tetras,
Darondo,
Quadrant,
Essential Logic,
Cybotron,
Harpers Bizarre,
R.M.O.,
Alphaville,
Porter Ricks,
The United States of America,
Second Layer,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Victims,
X-101,
K-Klass,
Kerri Chandler,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
Blake Baxter,
Max Romeo,
Sun City Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Dorothy Ashby,
Adolescents,
Don Cherry,
Minnie Riperton,
Monks,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.