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 Russia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Black Moon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Country Teasers,
The Standells,
Ice-T,
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cal Tjader,
EPMD,
Altered Images,
JFA,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dead Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gichy Dan,
Sarah Menescal,
Silicon Teens,
Deepchord,
Reagan Youth,
Vainqueur,
The Sonics,
Niagra,
the Soft Cell,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
Eyeless In Gaza,
K-Klass,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fugazi,
The Mojo Men,
Nico,
Quando Quango,
Nick Fraelich,
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
Mandrill,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cure,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arcadia,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tubeway Army,
New York Dolls,
Harry Pussy,
Wally Richardson,
Surgeon,
Bootsy Collins,
Index,
Livin' Joy,
Swell Maps,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
Matthew Halsall,
The Motions,
Dark Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Womack,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.