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 Jordan and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Piero Umiliani to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Icehouse,
Wings,
Barbara Tucker,
Metal Thangz,
The Gories,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brick,
Bluetip,
The Names,
Public Image Ltd.,
Maurizio,
Technova,
Desert Stars,
The Fall,
Pierre Henry,
MDC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ituana,
The Skatalites,
D'Angelo,
The Trojans,
Chris & Cosey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dawn Penn,
The Fuzztones,
The Residents,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül II,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronan,
Juan Atkins,
Motorama,
Idris Muhammad,
F. McDonald,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker,
Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Wolf Eyes,
The Blackbyrds,
Janne Schatter,
Roger Hodgson,
Man Parrish,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Starr,
Symarip,
Godley & Creme,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scion,
Black Moon,
The Wake,
Joy Division,
Soul Sonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Mo-Dettes,
Thompson Twins,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.