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 Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Organ to the punk 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Animal Collective,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Selecter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Groovy Waters,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Boredoms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quantec,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Anthony Braxton,
The Invisible,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Arab on Radar,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dual Sessions,
Scion,
Little Man,
Mad Mike,
Porter Ricks,
10cc,
Godley & Creme,
Cecil Taylor,
Con Funk Shun,
Archie Shepp,
Theoretical Girls,
The Slackers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pet Shop Boys,
In Retrospect,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pole,
PIL,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marcia Griffiths,
Absolute Body Control,
Laurel Aitken,
The Barracudas,
Can,
K-Klass,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Velvet Underground,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cymande,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gong,
Tears for Fears,
Marine Girls,
Q65,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camberwell Now,
Henry Cow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.