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 New Zealand and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Banda Bassotti to the grunge 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dirtbombs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Porter Ricks,
One Last Wish,
Goldenarms,
The Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tim Buckley,
La Düsseldorf,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Shoche,
Zapp,
Sam Rivers,
The Tremeloes,
Jeff Mills,
Pierre Henry,
Piero Umiliani,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
DNA,
The Barracudas,
UT,
Maleditus Sound,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Junior Murvin,
the Swans,
Dawn Penn,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gastr Del Sol,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Boredoms,
Audionom,
Newcleus,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kaleidoscope,
Whodini,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Order,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masters at Work,
Boz Scaggs,
Pagans,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Letta Mbulu,
John Cale,
EPMD,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
X-Ray Spex,
Pylon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.