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 Benin and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Gastr Del Sol to the rock 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Gong,
Animal Collective,
kango's stein massive,
Mission of Burma,
Boogie Down Productions,
Toni Rubio,
The Fuzztones,
Barbara Tucker,
Patti Smith,
Derrick Morgan,
Buzzcocks,
Gichy Dan,
The Mummies,
Peter and Kerry,
Sound Behaviour,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eurythmics,
Marine Girls,
Fatback Band,
The Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
The American Breed,
Cymande,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Todd Rundgren,
Wire,
Country Teasers,
Hasil Adkins,
Iggy Pop,
Young Marble Giants,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
Crash Course in Science,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Qualms,
Khruangbin,
Eddi Front,
the Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Deepchord,
Nick Fraelich,
Curtis Mayfield,
Banda Bassotti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Near,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
Rekid,
Rufus Thomas,
Maleditus Sound,
Cybotron,
Das Ding,
Cecil Taylor,
Intrusion,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
a-ha,
DJ Sneak,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.