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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Robert Görl to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sound Behaviour,
Sällskapet,
Sun City Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Deepchord,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Excepter,
The Young Rascals,
JFA,
Dennis Brown,
Joe Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
Fear,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Standells,
Angry Samoans,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smiths,
MDC,
Marcia Griffiths,
Shoche,
Bauhaus,
Max Romeo,
The Fuzztones,
Josef K,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Avey Tare,
Maurizio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dawn Penn,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gun Club,
The Cowsills,
Shuggie Otis,
Jerry's Kids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Index,
The Vogues,
Kerrie Biddell,
Animal Collective,
Scientists,
Supertramp,
Cecil Taylor,
R.M.O.,
The Five Americans,
The Names,
Amon Düül,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Martian,
La Düsseldorf,
Panda Bear,
Al Stewart,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Make Up,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.