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 Georgia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Monks to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Procol Harum,
Sam Rivers,
Interpol,
Sun City Girls,
Stereo Dub,
Mission of Burma,
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Sandy B,
Skarface,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arthur Verocai,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delta 5,
The Fortunes,
Groovy Waters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Flag,
Rhythm & Sound,
Massinfluence,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cowsills,
Joey Negro,
cv313,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bronski Beat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Slits,
The Associates,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radio Birdman,
Underground Resistance,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang Starr,
Boredoms,
Ituana,
Can,
Gang Green,
The Seeds,
The Walker Brothers,
UT,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Index,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
Blancmange,
Bauhaus,
The Cure,
Kurtis Blow,
Suicide,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Womack,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Robert Görl,
OOIOO,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.