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 Netherlands and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Joensuu 1685 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Maurizio,
Subhumans,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Blues Magoos,
Gabor Szabo,
Vladislav Delay,
Todd Rundgren,
The Young Rascals,
Roxette,
The Sonics,
Circle Jerks,
Morten Harket,
Jandek,
Sun City Girls,
Gang Starr,
Crash Course in Science,
Eddi Front,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Swans,
Sun Ra,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Niagra,
Nirvana,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
a-ha,
Parry Music,
Gong,
Thompson Twins,
Q and Not U,
Crooked Eye,
Man Eating Sloth,
Moby Grape,
Average White Band,
The Seeds,
the Association,
Technova,
Neu!,
Fad Gadget,
Matthew Halsall,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
One Last Wish,
Aloha Tigers,
Negative Approach,
Mark Hollis,
Max Romeo,
Kaleidoscope,
Au Pairs,
Nils Olav,
PIL,
Leonard Cohen,
Hardrive,
Whodini,
Quantec,
Delta 5,
ABC,
B.T. Express,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.