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 Singapore and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Five Americans to the electroclash 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Josef K,
The Move,
Unrelated Segments,
Buzzcocks,
Bill Near,
DJ Style,
the Sonics,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Section 25,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Davy DMX,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wire,
X-102,
Gregory Isaacs,
June Days,
The Gun Club,
Model 500,
Marmalade,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arab on Radar,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crash Course in Science,
Erasure,
Mad Mike,
Radiohead,
The Trojans,
Little Man,
Roxy Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
B.T. Express,
Barbara Tucker,
Eli Mardock,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Organ,
Judy Mowatt,
Nico,
Public Enemy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
New Age Steppers,
These Immortal Souls,
Wally Richardson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gap Band,
Mantronix,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
H. Thieme,
The Seeds,
JFA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Main Source,
Piero Umiliani,
Bush Tetras,
The Mojo Men,
the Human League,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.