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 Paraguay and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Motorama 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
the Slits,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
The Saints,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Q and Not U,
Dawn Penn,
Quadrant,
Cybotron,
Anthony Braxton,
Index,
The Misunderstood,
Urselle,
Derrick May,
The Buckinghams,
Judy Mowatt,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Neon Judgement,
Hasil Adkins,
Dual Sessions,
The Techniques,
Brick,
Peter & Gordon,
Yellowson,
La Düsseldorf,
Harmonia,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rotary Connection,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Carl Craig,
Deakin,
ABBA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rites of Spring,
Nick Fraelich,
Can,
The Cramps,
Animal Collective,
The Names,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minutemen,
K-Klass,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Angels of Light,
Pierre Henry,
Y Pants,
Essential Logic,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun City Girls,
The Mummies,
Ronan,
Ten City,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Beau Brummels,
Anakelly,
Eli Mardock,
Glenn Branca,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.