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 Philippines and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet 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 Drexciya to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Leonard Cohen,
Terry Callier,
The Monks,
Ohio Players,
Duran Duran,
the Sonics,
In Retrospect,
Anthony Braxton,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Flag,
Tim Buckley,
Pantytec,
Skaos,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
The Fugs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
10cc,
Joyce Sims,
Sonic Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Altered Images,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ten City,
Gang Starr,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Metal Thangz,
The Dirtbombs,
Todd Terry,
Agitation Free,
Deadbeat,
Minnie Riperton,
China Crisis,
Yellowson,
Tommy Roe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Clarke,
Babytalk,
Amazonics,
The United States of America,
Rod Modell,
Chris Corsano,
The Beau Brummels,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roxy Music,
Animal Collective,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeru the Damaja,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scratch Acid,
Camouflage,
Jawbox,
a-ha,
The Residents,
Von Mondo,
the Normal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.