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 Guinea and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Spoonie Gee to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
John Cale,
The Kinks,
Tom Boy,
Neu!,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun City Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Electric Prunes,
Charles Mingus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bang On A Can,
Con Funk Shun,
Gregory Isaacs,
Matthew Halsall,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Index,
Delon & Dalcan,
David McCallum,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
Ohio Players,
The Smiths,
Bobby Womack,
Pussy Galore,
D'Angelo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pierre Henry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joe Smooth,
Little Man,
The Mojo Men,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Jacob Miller,
Inner City,
Kaleidoscope,
Erykah Badu,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fugs,
The Birthday Party,
The Mummies,
Mr. Review,
The New Christs,
Japan,
Gang of Four,
cv313,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yazoo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lindisfarne,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cheater Slicks,
PIL,
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.