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 Austria and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron 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 Trumans Water to the grunge 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Janne Schatter,
Radiohead,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skarface,
Yusef Lateef,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grauzone,
The Dead C,
Ossler,
Soft Cell,
Jerry's Kids,
Television,
Mantronix,
Sight & Sound,
Can,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
Dave Gahan,
Bang On A Can,
The Moody Blues,
Camouflage,
Tropical Tobacco,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agent Orange,
E-Dancer,
Robert Wyatt,
PIL,
Roxette,
Black Flag,
Minny Pops,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David McCallum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visage,
CMW,
The Mojo Men,
Newcleus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cluster,
Rakim,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Davy DMX,
Scratch Acid,
Darondo,
Cybotron,
Von Mondo,
Flash Fearless,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liliput,
F. McDonald,
Excepter,
The Fuzztones,
OOIOO,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Josef K,
The Skatalites,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.