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 Botswana and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the crunk 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
The Buckinghams,
Cybotron,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fire Engines,
Agitation Free,
Chris Corsano,
The Velvet Underground,
Nick Fraelich,
The Count Five,
Spoonie Gee,
Siglo XX,
Deakin,
Ossler,
The Young Rascals,
The Vogues,
Nico,
Bauhaus,
One Last Wish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Susan Cadogan,
Kas Product,
X-101,
Public Enemy,
The Red Krayola,
Yusef Lateef,
Audionom,
Thompson Twins,
Kenny Larkin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pere Ubu,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ludus,
T.S.O.L.,
Minor Threat,
Wire,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
Spandau Ballet,
Schoolly D,
Derrick May,
Essential Logic,
OOIOO,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
CMW,
Marshall Jefferson,
Trumans Water,
The Remains,
Todd Terry,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Monochrome Set,
Brick,
The Busters,
The Golliwogs,
These Immortal Souls,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.