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 Tuvalu and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
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 guitar 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 Oneida to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David McCallum,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Anthony Braxton,
Desert Stars,
Ronan,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Sonics,
Bill Near,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Motions,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tres Demented,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
FM Einheit,
Absolute Body Control,
Amazonics,
Outsiders,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Trojans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dual Sessions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oblivians,
Slave,
Black Sheep,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tears for Fears,
Television Personalities,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pagans,
Fugazi,
Chris & Cosey,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scientists,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fluxion,
Robert Görl,
Camouflage,
The Angels of Light,
Banda Bassotti,
The Selecter,
The Techniques,
Grauzone,
Fear,
Vainqueur,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Index,
Basic Channel,
Magazine,
The Doors,
The Names,
Pulsallama,
Don Cherry,
Young Marble Giants,
Johnny Clarke,
kango's stein massive,
Lindisfarne,
Nik Kershaw,
KRS-One,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.