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 Liechtenstein and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Tres Demented to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Cecil Taylor,
Sarah Menescal,
The Vogues,
Ludus,
Interpol,
Al Stewart,
Hoover,
Duran Duran,
Danielle Patucci,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Golliwogs,
Unwound,
Absolute Body Control,
Rekid,
Youth Brigade,
The Sonics,
Monks,
Maurizio,
The Last Poets,
Junior Murvin,
PIL,
China Crisis,
Carl Craig,
Fugazi,
Brand Nubian,
Negative Approach,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
Reagan Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Magma,
Heaven 17,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siglo XX,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Erykah Badu,
Brothers Johnson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Albert Ayler,
The Cure,
LL Cool J,
John Lydon,
Rufus Thomas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masters at Work,
The Gap Band,
Bush Tetras,
Country Teasers,
Fatback Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Davy DMX,
Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.