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 Georgia and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Peter and Kerry to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Ituana,
The Pop Group,
John Foxx,
Yusef Lateef,
Stereo Dub,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hashim,
Terrestrial Tones,
Franke,
Porter Ricks,
Susan Cadogan,
Ten City,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Brick,
The Golliwogs,
Index,
Gregory Isaacs,
LL Cool J,
Fugazi,
Gabor Szabo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Matthew Halsall,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Stooges,
The Pretty Things,
The Kinks,
Monolake,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wolf Eyes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Martian,
The American Breed,
X-Ray Spex,
The Searchers,
Clear Light,
Colin Newman,
Ronan,
Eric Copeland,
The Tremeloes,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
Bobby Sherman,
Nick Fraelich,
Lightning Bolt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Main Source,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Big Daddy Kane,
Adolescents,
Danielle Patucci,
Fluxion,
Hardrive,
MC5,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.