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 Egypt and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Funky Four + One 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Talk Talk,
Bush Tetras,
Rod Modell,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cramps,
Pole,
Aaron Thompson,
Cheater Slicks,
OOIOO,
T.S.O.L.,
Minnie Riperton,
Minutemen,
Arab on Radar,
The Busters,
Lucky Dragons,
Joy Division,
The Human League,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül,
Janne Schatter,
Bad Manners,
Pharoah Sanders,
Spoonie Gee,
Warren Ellis,
Magma,
Anakelly,
Fad Gadget,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Unwound,
New Order,
The Divine Comedy,
Negative Approach,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Seeds,
The Blues Magoos,
The J.B.'s,
Mark Hollis,
Adolescents,
Kevin Saunderson,
a-ha,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moss Icon,
June Days,
Sixth Finger,
Technova,
The Gap Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sound Behaviour,
Whodini,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Michelle Simonal,
Lindisfarne,
John Coltrane,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.