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 France and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Masters at Work to the crunk 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
The Golliwogs,
Toni Rubio,
Easy Going,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
cv313,
Man Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
Dark Day,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crime,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pharoah Sanders,
Japan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Fuzztones,
The Blackbyrds,
Unrelated Segments,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Byrd,
Blancmange,
The Music Machine,
The Move,
Slave,
David Bowie,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ossler,
Piero Umiliani,
Wire,
Radio Birdman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Byron Stingily,
Metal Thangz,
Jacob Miller,
CMW,
Banda Bassotti,
The Cowsills,
David Axelrod,
Bob Dylan,
The Fortunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gories,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pussy Galore,
X-102,
Jeff Lynne,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
EPMD,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Agent Orange,
Shuggie Otis,
Motorama,
The Skatalites,
Barrington Levy,
Wings,
Monolake,
Dead Boys,
DNA,
Sun Ra,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.