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 Azerbaijan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 MDC to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pussy Galore,
Scratch Acid,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Star Department,
Q and Not U,
The Mojo Men,
Slave,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ronan,
The Barracudas,
Audionom,
Peter & Gordon,
Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sixth Finger,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alphaville,
Roxy Music,
Lalo Schifrin,
Accadde A,
Mad Mike,
Porter Ricks,
Lower 48,
The Cowsills,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Underground Resistance,
Schoolly D,
The Index,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Slits,
Black Moon,
The Dead C,
Yaz,
Hot Snakes,
U.S. Maple,
The Evens,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Junior Murvin,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maurizio,
Fad Gadget,
This Heat,
Half Japanese,
Kenny Larkin,
The Angels of Light,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Supertramp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.