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 Seychelles and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kas Product,
Althea and Donna,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Pretty Things,
New Order,
Mantronix,
Pole,
New Age Steppers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Panda Bear,
Blancmange,
Slave,
Clear Light,
Mad Mike,
Mark Hollis,
The Techniques,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Görl,
Cluster,
Bill Wells,
Black Moon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Bananas,
Joe Finger,
Bronski Beat,
Fear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Monochrome Set,
New York Dolls,
The Golliwogs,
Urselle,
The Leaves,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Guru Guru,
Lakeside,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang of Four,
Rufus Thomas,
X-101,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerrie Biddell,
David McCallum,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Star Department,
Connie Case,
Suicide,
Rekid,
Arcadia,
One Last Wish,
Brothers Johnson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pylon,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.