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 Belgium and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the rock 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
MC5,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Talk Talk,
DJ Sneak,
Deepchord,
Al Stewart,
Terry Callier,
Massinfluence,
Laurel Aitken,
Oneida,
Sandy B,
Eddi Front,
Magazine,
The Electric Prunes,
Clear Light,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Pop Group,
Ludus,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Residents,
The Smoke,
The Durutti Column,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
Eurythmics,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
Inner City,
T. Rex,
The Techniques,
Minnie Riperton,
Loose Ends,
The Wake,
The Modern Lovers,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
Soulsonic Force,
Lucky Dragons,
Neu!,
Fear,
Yellowson,
Joe Finger,
Scratch Acid,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Whodini,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ornette Coleman,
Yusef Lateef,
Fluxion,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Move,
Surgeon,
Todd Terry,
Bauhaus,
Youth Brigade,
Monks,
Siglo XX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.