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 Dominica and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 UT to the punk 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Hill,
Oneida,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Smiths,
Pole,
The Fall,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gang Green,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
One Last Wish,
Theoretical Girls,
Skaos,
Matthew Halsall,
Deadbeat,
Erykah Badu,
Rufus Thomas,
Eurythmics,
Motorama,
Nick Fraelich,
The Buckinghams,
The Neon Judgement,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Misunderstood,
Man Eating Sloth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tres Demented,
DJ Style,
Moss Icon,
Pere Ubu,
The Mojo Men,
Brand Nubian,
Marvin Gaye,
Circle Jerks,
The Electric Prunes,
The Zeros,
The Litter,
Neu!,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sixth Finger,
Tommy Roe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-Ray Spex,
Grey Daturas,
DJ Sneak,
Swell Maps,
The Moleskins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Wells,
Archie Shepp,
Maleditus Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Lower 48,
Sonic Youth,
The Gap Band,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.