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 Taiwan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric Dolphy to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Trumans Water,
Deadbeat,
cv313,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Neil Young,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alice Coltrane,
Mark Hollis,
The Kinks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rotary Connection,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roy Ayers,
Yazoo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Agitation Free,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Raincoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Angry Samoans,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy Collins,
Skarface,
The Golliwogs,
Bauhaus,
Smog,
Minutemen,
the Swans,
Dead Boys,
Lakeside,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Blackbyrds,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dark Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fatback Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Los Fastidios,
Cybotron,
Tommy Roe,
Stereo Dub,
E-Dancer,
Janne Schatter,
Echospace,
Rakim,
The Litter,
Man Parrish,
Sugar Minott,
Jandek,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Slits,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Letta Mbulu,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.