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 Moldova and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Avey Tare 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills 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?
Pierre Henry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Visage,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Organ,
Peter and Kerry,
Sight & Sound,
The Barracudas,
June of 44,
This Heat,
Intrusion,
Henry Cow,
The Fuzztones,
Pantytec,
Scratch Acid,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roy Ayers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scott Walker,
Agitation Free,
Crime,
The New Christs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soul II Soul,
Ronnie Foster,
Marvin Gaye,
Dawn Penn,
Malaria!,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camberwell Now,
Buzzcocks,
Colin Newman,
Junior Murvin,
Sugar Minott,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Avey Tare,
Boz Scaggs,
Isaac Hayes,
David McCallum,
FM Einheit,
Pussy Galore,
The Cramps,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sound Behaviour,
The Moody Blues,
Thee Headcoats,
the Swans,
Arthur Verocai,
Magma,
The Five Americans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
MC5,
Inner City,
Hoover,
Fugazi,
Pantaleimon,
Eric Copeland,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.