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 Singapore and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar 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 Connie Case to the funk 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Quantec,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
Smog,
Clear Light,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cure,
Quadrant,
The Fire Engines,
Chris Corsano,
The Walker Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris & Cosey,
Deakin,
Bush Tetras,
Roxette,
Eli Mardock,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Osbourne,
Drexciya,
The American Breed,
Basic Channel,
Robert Wyatt,
Zero Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
Rhythm & Sound,
Section 25,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bobby Womack,
the Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
Duran Duran,
Ice-T,
Negative Approach,
Bill Near,
John Foxx,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
X-102,
The Sonics,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stetsasonic,
Swans,
Sällskapet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pantytec,
Bluetip,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Easy Going,
Fear,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick Morgan,
Eddi Front,
Lyres,
Index,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.