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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Sonics 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Surgeon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deadbeat,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Blossom Toes,
Parry Music,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Clarke,
Boogie Down Productions,
New York Dolls,
Television Personalities,
Quantec,
Stetsasonic,
Bob Dylan,
Danielle Patucci,
Moss Icon,
Urselle,
Bill Near,
Drexciya,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Star Department,
Man Parrish,
ABBA,
Harmonia,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Toni Rubio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lungfish,
The Leaves,
Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soft Machine,
Half Japanese,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Slick Rick,
Oblivians,
The Young Rascals,
Crooked Eye,
Lightning Bolt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eric Dolphy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nik Kershaw,
Bluetip,
Talk Talk,
Al Stewart,
Peter and Kerry,
Siglo XX,
Anthony Braxton,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.