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 Seychelles and from Copenhagen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hasil Adkins to the disco 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unwound,
Babytalk,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Qualms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Slave,
Reuben Wilson,
Trumans Water,
Fad Gadget,
Ohio Players,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ken Boothe,
Chrome,
The Red Krayola,
Nico,
H. Thieme,
Rufus Thomas,
Al Stewart,
Make Up,
The Neon Judgement,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
Supertramp,
Can,
Sällskapet,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Holt,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Surgeon,
The Young Rascals,
Kurtis Blow,
Stetsasonic,
The Wake,
Lebanon Hanover,
MDC,
Cheater Slicks,
The Saints,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
The Dead C,
Grey Daturas,
The Techniques,
E-Dancer,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.