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 Brunei and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Jacques Brel to the rock 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Faust,
The Durutti Column,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scion,
Fluxion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick Morgan,
Sex Pistols,
The Moody Blues,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Porter Ricks,
Los Fastidios,
The Fortunes,
Talk Talk,
The United States of America,
Donny Hathaway,
Metal Thangz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lungfish,
Rufus Thomas,
Man Eating Sloth,
Heaven 17,
Tears for Fears,
Ronan,
Neu!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric Copeland,
Cybotron,
D'Angelo,
Roxette,
The Gun Club,
Spoonie Gee,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
Lindisfarne,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Grass Roots,
The Golliwogs,
Eli Mardock,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Television Personalities,
Tim Buckley,
Zero Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Wolf Eyes,
Wire,
Parry Music,
Fad Gadget,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nick Fraelich,
Vainqueur,
Harmonia,
Skarface,
The Moleskins,
Eddi Front,
Barry Ungar,
Henry Cow,
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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.