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 Luxembourg and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 DNA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Young Marble Giants,
Negative Approach,
Television,
The Remains,
This Heat,
The Count Five,
Davy DMX,
The Techniques,
The Cowsills,
Danielle Patucci,
Skaos,
Ralphi Rosario,
T. Rex,
The Buckinghams,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Godley & Creme,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nas,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monochrome Set,
The Dirtbombs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
The United States of America,
Gil Scott Heron,
Anakelly,
Radiohead,
Yaz,
The Kinks,
the Slits,
Jandek,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
The New Christs,
Fugazi,
Magma,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sister Nancy,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
The Misunderstood,
Minny Pops,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cybotron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Smooth,
Khruangbin,
T.S.O.L.,
Gichy Dan,
Harmonia,
Kaleidoscope,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grauzone,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare,
Josef K,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.