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 United States and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin 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 Dave Gahan to the rock 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Mark Hollis,
James White and The Blacks,
Oneida,
the Normal,
Gil Scott Heron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ponytail,
Niagra,
Animal Collective,
Gong,
Bobby Sherman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
MC5,
The Techniques,
Gang Starr,
Subhumans,
Chris & Cosey,
The Wake,
Roxy Music,
Cheater Slicks,
Aaron Thompson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marine Girls,
Pulsallama,
Althea and Donna,
Altered Images,
Dave Gahan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Bananas,
Boredoms,
Neu!,
Mr. Review,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
World's Most,
Soft Machine,
Massinfluence,
Aloha Tigers,
The Dead C,
Crooked Eye,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABC,
Procol Harum,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deadbeat,
The J.B.'s,
Ultra Naté,
Ohio Players,
Barbara Tucker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
The Birthday Party,
MDC,
Sarah Menescal,
New Order,
Motorama,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.