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 Vanuatu and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Bauhaus to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scott Walker,
Arthur Verocai,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Radio Birdman,
Bobby Sherman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Surgeon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lindisfarne,
The Beau Brummels,
Erasure,
Ituana,
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
This Heat,
Alice Coltrane,
The Electric Prunes,
Don Cherry,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Index,
Parry Music,
Lyres,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tim Buckley,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chris Corsano,
Fatback Band,
The United States of America,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Royal Trux,
Minutemen,
Scientists,
Quantec,
Henry Cow,
Idris Muhammad,
Brand Nubian,
Grey Daturas,
Panda Bear,
Hardrive,
the Slits,
DNA,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Stooges,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Axelrod,
Todd Rundgren,
Kurtis Blow,
Sandy B,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
Can,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.