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 India and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pylon to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Cowsills,
Fear,
Skriet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
Joe Smooth,
The Martian,
Whodini,
Swell Maps,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed,
Stetsasonic,
Nas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cybotron,
Kas Product,
Faraquet,
Smog,
Nik Kershaw,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gichy Dan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
The Busters,
EPMD,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
Mars,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Knickerbockers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crispy Ambulance,
Japan,
Adolescents,
Jacques Brel,
the Germs,
Don Cherry,
Roxette,
Camberwell Now,
The Black Dice,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crash Course in Science,
Yaz,
Pylon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sister Nancy,
The United States of America,
Delon & Dalcan,
La Düsseldorf,
Second Layer,
Slick Rick,
Jimmy McGriff,
Danielle Patucci,
Ornette Coleman,
Mad Mike,
Jeff Mills,
The Golliwogs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.