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 Panama and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 These Immortal Souls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Niagra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
the Germs,
Harmonia,
Los Fastidios,
Kas Product,
Cluster,
Peter and Kerry,
Main Source,
Pharoah Sanders,
Agitation Free,
Pagans,
New Age Steppers,
Fugazi,
The Gladiators,
The New Christs,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Christie,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tim Buckley,
KRS-One,
Slick Rick,
Eric Copeland,
Pantytec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June Days,
Motorama,
Cecil Taylor,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Smog,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Index,
Erasure,
Crispy Ambulance,
Soft Machine,
Oneida,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Mummies,
Soft Cell,
Maurizio,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Sheep,
Unrelated Segments,
Warren Ellis,
the Association,
Outsiders,
Gong,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Swans,
Talk Talk,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Aloha Tigers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.