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 Kosovo and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 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 Yellowson to the dance 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Fugazi,
F. McDonald,
Isaac Hayes,
Morten Harket,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter and Kerry,
Bob Dylan,
A Certain Ratio,
Supertramp,
Duran Duran,
Wasted Youth,
Deakin,
Black Bananas,
PIL,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eddi Front,
DNA,
X-102,
The Techniques,
Glambeats Corp.,
Susan Cadogan,
Crash Course in Science,
La Düsseldorf,
Joensuu 1685,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Freddie Wadling,
Black Pus,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun City Girls,
48th St. Collective,
Arab on Radar,
The Human League,
The Vogues,
The Zeros,
Ultravox,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lyres,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television Personalities,
Junior Murvin,
Soul II Soul,
Lightning Bolt,
Yellowson,
Henry Cow,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marmalade,
MC5,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Howard Jones,
Hardrive,
The Golliwogs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.