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 Belgium and from Philadelphia.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Neu! to the grime 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
The Count Five,
Ultimate Spinach,
Michelle Simonal,
Little Man,
Siglo XX,
The Cure,
Barbara Tucker,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Procol Harum,
This Heat,
Sugar Minott,
Dead Boys,
Bang On A Can,
Grey Daturas,
Delta 5,
Eurythmics,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Enemy,
Outsiders,
Bootsy Collins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
K-Klass,
Davy DMX,
Jandek,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Das Ding,
T. Rex,
Joe Finger,
Deepchord,
John Lydon,
Franke,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Groovy Waters,
Dave Gahan,
Lower 48,
Massinfluence,
Robert Görl,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Infiniti,
Gichy Dan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fugazi,
Jacob Miller,
Trumans Water,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sound Behaviour,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Motions,
Malaria!,
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Tubeway Army,
Rakim,
Lungfish,
Susan Cadogan,
Heaven 17,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.