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 Hungary and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grunge 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
John Foxx,
The Modern Lovers,
Deakin,
Porter Ricks,
Spoonie Gee,
John Coltrane,
Whodini,
Warsaw,
Amazonics,
The Last Poets,
Yellowson,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Eddi Front,
Sonic Youth,
Archie Shepp,
Isaac Hayes,
Robert Hood,
Matthew Halsall,
Ralphi Rosario,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Oneida,
The Vogues,
Flash Fearless,
Japan,
Pole,
T.S.O.L.,
Aswad,
The Smoke,
The Fuzztones,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rapeman,
Andrew Hill,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brand Nubian,
The Cowsills,
Ludus,
Minor Threat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Niagra,
Camberwell Now,
Franke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Second Layer,
Mantronix,
The Blackbyrds,
Lakeside,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
Section 25,
Godley & Creme,
the Germs,
Y Pants,
Von Mondo,
D'Angelo,
Joe Finger,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.