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 Lebanon and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Delta 5 to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Audionom,
The Fuzztones,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
Qualms,
The Monks,
The Techniques,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bauhaus,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Doobie Brothers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sällskapet,
Y Pants,
Chris Corsano,
The Slits,
Mo-Dettes,
Unwound,
The Associates,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Average White Band,
Nirvana,
Man Parrish,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Inner City,
Joensuu 1685,
The Litter,
Sun Ra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Blancmange,
Marvin Gaye,
Rotary Connection,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Howard Jones,
H. Thieme,
The Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lungfish,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Womack,
The Skatalites,
Rhythm & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lakeside,
Sam Rivers,
The Smoke,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Half Japanese,
Circle Jerks,
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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.