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 San Marino and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wire to the punk 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Black Bananas,
Urselle,
The Leaves,
Public Enemy,
Scan 7,
Skarface,
The Modern Lovers,
Charles Mingus,
Moss Icon,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-102,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABC,
Heaven 17,
Pere Ubu,
Stetsasonic,
Joey Negro,
Gabor Szabo,
Tubeway Army,
Johnny Clarke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David Axelrod,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Aswad,
Chrome,
John Holt,
Steve Hackett,
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Parry Music,
Skriet,
the Sonics,
Morten Harket,
The Buckinghams,
Mad Mike,
Erykah Badu,
The Beau Brummels,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
Sound Behaviour,
Byron Stingily,
Angry Samoans,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Foxx,
Technova,
Yusef Lateef,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chris Corsano,
Darondo,
Camberwell Now,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tim Buckley,
a-ha,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eddi Front,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.