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 Tajikistan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Angry Samoans,
Todd Rundgren,
Marine Girls,
Groovy Waters,
The Birthday Party,
Malaria!,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tears for Fears,
Wire,
In Retrospect,
Black Moon,
Can,
Hasil Adkins,
Michelle Simonal,
Minor Threat,
Eve St. Jones,
Ludus,
One Last Wish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anakelly,
The Dead C,
Livin' Joy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Görl,
Loose Ends,
Gabor Szabo,
Mo-Dettes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barry Ungar,
The Fall,
Roxette,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
The Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pere Ubu,
Rakim,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boredoms,
ABC,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Red Krayola,
the Human League,
The J.B.'s,
The Pretty Things,
Bauhaus,
Cluster,
Grauzone,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.