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 Libya and from New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Adolescents to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Tears for Fears,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moss Icon,
Tubeway Army,
The Doors,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thompson Twins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jeff Mills,
Hot Snakes,
Skaos,
Zapp,
Anthony Braxton,
John Foxx,
Max Romeo,
Rites of Spring,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scrapy,
The Blues Magoos,
Sam Rivers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Massinfluence,
Freddie Wadling,
Quantec,
Thee Headcoats,
The Dead C,
The Residents,
Radiohead,
Deepchord,
Avey Tare,
The Leaves,
The Monochrome Set,
Ossler,
Sun Ra,
Quadrant,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Television Personalities,
Khruangbin,
Zero Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
The Last Poets,
Television,
Andrew Hill,
The Motions,
Morten Harket,
Jawbox,
D'Angelo,
Bobby Sherman,
The Real Kids,
Deakin,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gun Club,
Eddi Front,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scratch Acid,
Kerrie Biddell,
Arcadia,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.