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 El Salvador and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Iggy Pop to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Excepter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rekid,
David Axelrod,
Black Pus,
Sonic Youth,
June Days,
Pagans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
kango's stein massive,
The Neon Judgement,
The Names,
Chris & Cosey,
New York Dolls,
Siglo XX,
Gang Green,
Blancmange,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
Nils Olav,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Stetsasonic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
Duran Duran,
Theoretical Girls,
Sight & Sound,
Josef K,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fall,
Crooked Eye,
The Toasters,
Malaria!,
Saccharine Trust,
Average White Band,
Ten City,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barrington Levy,
Slave,
The Martian,
Dual Sessions,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Simply Red,
In Retrospect,
FM Einheit,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül II,
The Fugs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joey Negro,
U.S. Maple,
These Immortal Souls,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.