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 Bahrain and from Edmonton.
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 Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Los Fastidios to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Vladislav Delay,
Scion,
Ronan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hashim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Barracudas,
Darondo,
The Moleskins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Unwound,
Jawbox,
Stiv Bators,
Soft Cell,
These Immortal Souls,
Shoche,
Sarah Menescal,
Howard Jones,
The Moody Blues,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül II,
Bang On A Can,
Marine Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Ten City,
The Pop Group,
Minor Threat,
Skriet,
Maleditus Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Boredoms,
Scott Walker,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cecil Taylor,
Thompson Twins,
Scientists,
L. Decosne,
Clear Light,
Inner City,
Man Parrish,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grey Daturas,
Max Romeo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Derrick Morgan,
Country Teasers,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
Marvin Gaye,
Sun City Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
Bauhaus,
Mark Hollis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang Green,
FM Einheit,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.