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 Niger and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Gichy Dan,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Barracudas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Parry Music,
Darondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Kas Product,
The Evens,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
Moebius,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Smog,
Lightning Bolt,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gories,
X-101,
Tommy Roe,
Swans,
The Walker Brothers,
Suicide,
Marshall Jefferson,
Juan Atkins,
The Modern Lovers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scan 7,
Young Marble Giants,
Frankie Knuckles,
Laurel Aitken,
EPMD,
Thee Headcoats,
Essential Logic,
Pole,
Technova,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
Dave Gahan,
Sparks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
Eli Mardock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sound Behaviour,
Half Japanese,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joensuu 1685,
Pantytec,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Intrusion,
Shoche,
The Young Rascals,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rites of Spring,
Lindisfarne,
Fad Gadget,
The Techniques,
Supertramp,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.