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 Austria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Symarip to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Harmonia,
Joyce Sims,
The Human League,
The Cure,
Sound Behaviour,
Stereo Dub,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Litter,
Kerri Chandler,
OOIOO,
Simply Red,
Ossler,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bronski Beat,
Ken Boothe,
Slave,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Prince Buster,
The Toasters,
Rufus Thomas,
The Beau Brummels,
Yaz,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Jacques Brel,
Neu!,
The Real Kids,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lebanon Hanover,
Can,
Judy Mowatt,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Pretty Things,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
June of 44,
Roger Hodgson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Saccharine Trust,
Rotary Connection,
Sister Nancy,
Lightning Bolt,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Christie,
Kerrie Biddell,
Reagan Youth,
The Slits,
Quadrant,
Neil Young,
Eric Dolphy,
Isaac Hayes,
Camberwell Now,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Barbara Tucker,
Subhumans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.