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 Tonga and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Connie Case to the jazz 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
June of 44,
The Electric Prunes,
Bad Manners,
DJ Style,
Model 500,
Barbara Tucker,
Joey Negro,
Wolf Eyes,
Los Fastidios,
UT,
Fatback Band,
48th St. Collective,
Minor Threat,
Q and Not U,
the Germs,
The Music Machine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
10cc,
Scott Walker,
Mantronix,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Vladislav Delay,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Human League,
The Slits,
The Move,
Tomorrow,
Carl Craig,
New Order,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
PIL,
Barry Ungar,
Ken Boothe,
LL Cool J,
Steve Hackett,
Newcleus,
Intrusion,
Pet Shop Boys,
Circle Jerks,
Patti Smith,
The Standells,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Barracudas,
Essential Logic,
Flipper,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed,
Gichy Dan,
Bang On A Can,
June Days,
Symarip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Man Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
AZ,
Pierre Henry,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.