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 Vietnam and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar 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 Max Romeo to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Bowie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Germs,
Lower 48,
X-Ray Spex,
ABBA,
Intrusion,
Davy DMX,
Index,
Bill Near,
Agitation Free,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minor Threat,
Byron Stingily,
Yusef Lateef,
Reuben Wilson,
Kenny Larkin,
Ronan,
Pagans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Grass Roots,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grey Daturas,
Jandek,
Darondo,
Soft Machine,
Lungfish,
Au Pairs,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Byrd,
The Evens,
Deakin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hashim,
Urselle,
Andrew Hill,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monks,
Jeff Lynne,
Ossler,
Khruangbin,
Ken Boothe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Symarip,
Todd Rundgren,
The Knickerbockers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kurtis Blow,
John Coltrane,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Modern Lovers,
Boredoms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Susan Cadogan,
Fad Gadget,
Wolf Eyes,
Organ,
Sonny Sharrock,
Half Japanese,
Franke,
Basic Channel,
The Busters,
The Birthday Party,
Rufus Thomas,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.