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 Ethiopia and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Graham Central Station to the dance 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Stetsasonic,
Malaria!,
R.M.O.,
Mad Mike,
Sonic Youth,
The Sound,
Crispy Ambulance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Smiths,
Cecil Taylor,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
Rapeman,
Slick Rick,
Man Parrish,
Rites of Spring,
The Knickerbockers,
Gichy Dan,
Mo-Dettes,
Pylon,
Darondo,
the Soft Cell,
X-101,
Tres Demented,
Altered Images,
Yellowson,
Basic Channel,
Joey Negro,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soulsonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
Pantytec,
PIL,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mark Hollis,
Accadde A,
Robert Wyatt,
Alton Ellis,
Model 500,
Q65,
Nas,
Loose Ends,
Faust,
David McCallum,
The Fugs,
Flipper,
The Doors,
Stereo Dub,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Desert Stars,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joyce Sims,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mantronix,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.