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 Sri Lanka and from Manchester.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Gichy Dan to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unrelated Segments,
AZ,
Reuben Wilson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
Wire,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skriet,
The Moleskins,
Colin Newman,
Jacob Miller,
Henry Cow,
Brand Nubian,
Bang On A Can,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Johnny Osbourne,
K-Klass,
Cal Tjader,
The Saints,
Angry Samoans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cameo,
Harry Pussy,
Absolute Body Control,
Maurizio,
Sonic Youth,
Albert Ayler,
Franke,
Matthew Halsall,
Pole,
Q65,
Man Parrish,
Depeche Mode,
Wally Richardson,
The Move,
Stetsasonic,
Joey Negro,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun City Girls,
The J.B.'s,
The Grass Roots,
Magazine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Accadde A,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rites of Spring,
PIL,
Leonard Cohen,
Todd Terry,
Malaria!,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scan 7,
Aaron Thompson,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sonics,
Sarah Menescal,
Janne Schatter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.