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 Namibia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 Amon Düül to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Electric Prunes,
Camberwell Now,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Blake Baxter,
Lower 48,
The Tremeloes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Babytalk,
The Remains,
Marc Almond,
Howard Jones,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jeru the Damaja,
A Certain Ratio,
Boredoms,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
New Age Steppers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minny Pops,
Arcadia,
Bootsy Collins,
Gabor Szabo,
Yaz,
UT,
CMW,
Amon Düül II,
Eve St. Jones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Little Man,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Flag,
Roy Ayers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
The Gories,
The Music Machine,
Rekid,
Buzzcocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Glenn Branca,
Saccharine Trust,
Moss Icon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Lydon,
Pierre Henry,
kango's stein massive,
KRS-One,
Brothers Johnson,
Make Up,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Kinks,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.