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 Paraguay and from New York.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare 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 Oblivians to the grunge 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
La Düsseldorf,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Raincoats,
Moebius,
Joensuu 1685,
Cymande,
John Holt,
Babytalk,
Aaron Thompson,
Qualms,
MDC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crash Course in Science,
Arthur Verocai,
The Pop Group,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tres Demented,
Don Cherry,
Brick,
D'Angelo,
Vladislav Delay,
The Mojo Men,
The Smoke,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
Con Funk Shun,
Ohio Players,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arcadia,
Crispian St. Peters,
Michelle Simonal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Reagan Youth,
The Pretty Things,
Public Enemy,
New Age Steppers,
The Selecter,
Goldenarms,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fortunes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Whodini,
Soul Sonic Force,
X-Ray Spex,
Massinfluence,
Warsaw,
The Associates,
DJ Sneak,
Skaos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wasted Youth,
Chrome,
Das Ding,
Interpol,
Nick Fraelich,
Basic Channel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.