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 Syria and from Seoul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
DJ Sneak,
Essential Logic,
Eli Mardock,
Johnny Clarke,
Metal Thangz,
Scratch Acid,
Henry Cow,
Minor Threat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
Kenny Larkin,
The Busters,
The Doors,
Talk Talk,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anakelly,
Depeche Mode,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
Heaven 17,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
H. Thieme,
Crooked Eye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Section 25,
Wings,
Los Fastidios,
Peter and Kerry,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Cowsills,
Alton Ellis,
Robert Hood,
T. Rex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Trumans Water,
Nils Olav,
Gang of Four,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Zeros,
The Barracudas,
Piero Umiliani,
Circle Jerks,
Lower 48,
Icehouse,
The Young Rascals,
Judy Mowatt,
a-ha,
Sugar Minott,
New York Dolls,
Arab on Radar,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sex Pistols,
The Human League,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.