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 Japan and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ossler to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
ABC,
Aswad,
Cecil Taylor,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dawn Penn,
Faust,
The Gun Club,
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Susan Cadogan,
The Last Poets,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wolf Eyes,
Althea and Donna,
Maleditus Sound,
New Order,
Parry Music,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
Flipper,
Glenn Branca,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
The Music Machine,
Quadrant,
Crispian St. Peters,
Quantec,
Black Flag,
Lakeside,
The Mojo Men,
The Doors,
Technova,
June Days,
Das Ding,
Underground Resistance,
L. Decosne,
Urselle,
Eve St. Jones,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Little Man,
8 Eyed Spy,
Niagra,
The Names,
Derrick May,
Godley & Creme,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dual Sessions,
Bill Wells,
Arab on Radar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tom Boy,
Section 25,
Kerri Chandler,
Mark Hollis,
Eddi Front,
Japan,
the Germs,
Monks,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.