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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Khruangbin to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Half Japanese,
Amon Düül II,
Au Pairs,
John Coltrane,
Y Pants,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Kinks,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Toasters,
Alice Coltrane,
Magma,
Q and Not U,
Marmalade,
The Five Americans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
X-Ray Spex,
Duran Duran,
Sound Behaviour,
Crime,
Ornette Coleman,
The Count Five,
Beasts of Bourbon,
EPMD,
The Mojo Men,
a-ha,
John Lydon,
Chrome,
Reuben Wilson,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Motions,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boogie Down Productions,
Quantec,
Thompson Twins,
Theoretical Girls,
Agitation Free,
Pere Ubu,
Alton Ellis,
Public Enemy,
The Human League,
Connie Case,
Yazoo,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
R.M.O.,
Bronski Beat,
Gang Green,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Colin Newman,
Marvin Gaye,
Nico,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Technova,
Neil Young,
Second Layer,
Dark Day,
Make Up,
Unwound,
Amon Düül,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.