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 Belize and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chrome,
Slave,
Zapp,
Maurizio,
Pussy Galore,
Quadrant,
Prince Buster,
Nick Fraelich,
Jawbox,
Idris Muhammad,
Spoonie Gee,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Associates,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Association,
Harmonia,
Siglo XX,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ossler,
Michelle Simonal,
Todd Rundgren,
Kenny Larkin,
Section 25,
The Moleskins,
K-Klass,
Connie Case,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bad Manners,
China Crisis,
T.S.O.L.,
R.M.O.,
The Modern Lovers,
Godley & Creme,
The Victims,
Todd Terry,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Khruangbin,
Glambeats Corp.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sugar Minott,
MC5,
Marc Almond,
The Sound,
James White and The Blacks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
David McCallum,
Pierre Henry,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.