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 New Zealand and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum 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 Index to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
The Slackers,
Mars,
Sex Pistols,
Kas Product,
New Order,
The Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
X-102,
Lalann,
Chris Corsano,
Eric Copeland,
Warsaw,
The Black Dice,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Smiths,
Deepchord,
Arab on Radar,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hoover,
The Neon Judgement,
Sällskapet,
La Düsseldorf,
the Slits,
Michelle Simonal,
Steve Hackett,
This Heat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
LL Cool J,
The Last Poets,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crash Course in Science,
Mission of Burma,
Nas,
Morten Harket,
E-Dancer,
The Gories,
Wally Richardson,
the Association,
The Stooges,
B.T. Express,
Deadbeat,
Pantaleimon,
The Monochrome Set,
Gastr Del Sol,
Robert Wyatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Vladislav Delay,
Letta Mbulu,
The Dirtbombs,
Henry Cow,
Janne Schatter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camouflage,
Porter Ricks,
Drexciya,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.