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 Botswana and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 marimba 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 Derrick May to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Scion,
Maleditus Sound,
Pole,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Clear Light,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dark Day,
The Selecter,
Todd Terry,
Moss Icon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ice-T,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Slackers,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Music Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Spandau Ballet,
Procol Harum,
The Toasters,
The Seeds,
Au Pairs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lower 48,
a-ha,
Janne Schatter,
Junior Murvin,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
Bill Near,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
Minutemen,
the Germs,
Severed Heads,
Stiv Bators,
Arthur Verocai,
Todd Rundgren,
The Mummies,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chris Corsano,
Bobby Sherman,
OOIOO,
Adolescents,
kango's stein massive,
Camouflage,
Aaron Thompson,
World's Most,
Robert Görl,
Sparks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.