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 Dominican Republic and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Panda Bear,
Rotary Connection,
Chris Corsano,
The Stooges,
Malaria!,
Grauzone,
Talk Talk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Bananas,
Maleditus Sound,
Yellowson,
Arcadia,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Country Teasers,
Gang of Four,
Howard Jones,
Dual Sessions,
Gichy Dan,
Derrick Morgan,
Skriet,
Joensuu 1685,
Deadbeat,
Ice-T,
Shuggie Otis,
Crash Course in Science,
The Offenders,
Alison Limerick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ralphi Rosario,
Susan Cadogan,
Glenn Branca,
Boredoms,
Stockholm Monsters,
Buzzcocks,
Faust,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Holt,
Wings,
Wire,
the Human League,
Brass Construction,
The Residents,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pole,
ABC,
Ultra Naté,
Suicide,
Jawbox,
Soul II Soul,
The Associates,
Throbbing Gristle,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
Johnny Clarke,
Crime,
The Invisible,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bauhaus,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.