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 Costa Rica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 New Order to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
World's Most,
Warsaw,
Swell Maps,
The Smiths,
The Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pretty Things,
PIL,
Pylon,
Amon Düül II,
the Sonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Hot Snakes,
Depeche Mode,
Cameo,
Thompson Twins,
Henry Cow,
Trumans Water,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Names,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Unrelated Segments,
Danielle Patucci,
Maleditus Sound,
Urselle,
The Happenings,
Pussy Galore,
Scott Walker,
Dorothy Ashby,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Mills,
Eve St. Jones,
Yazoo,
Bush Tetras,
Rakim,
Donald Byrd,
Second Layer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moby Grape,
Funky Four + One,
Sister Nancy,
Steve Hackett,
Crooked Eye,
New Age Steppers,
The Cure,
The Kinks,
Sex Pistols,
The Saints,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hardrive,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.