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 Finland and from Jakarta.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Moleskins,
The Durutti Column,
Fad Gadget,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deakin,
The Knickerbockers,
the Slits,
Bauhaus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ossler,
Frankie Knuckles,
Smog,
The Count Five,
The Vogues,
Lucky Dragons,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Evens,
John Foxx,
KRS-One,
Jeff Lynne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Television,
The Moody Blues,
the Human League,
Junior Murvin,
Country Teasers,
Blake Baxter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
These Immortal Souls,
The Trojans,
the Swans,
Sparks,
Barclay James Harvest,
48th St. Collective,
Grey Daturas,
Zapp,
Schoolly D,
Ken Boothe,
Tears for Fears,
Shuggie Otis,
Guru Guru,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
The Golliwogs,
U.S. Maple,
Terrestrial Tones,
Deepchord,
Lyres,
Yusef Lateef,
Albert Ayler,
Moebius,
Marmalade,
Arthur Verocai,
Clear Light,
The Toasters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.