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 Andorra and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Desert Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boredoms,
Bobby Womack,
H. Thieme,
Matthew Bourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Goldenarms,
John Coltrane,
Black Bananas,
Sarah Menescal,
Excepter,
Gang Green,
X-102,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Machine,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harry Pussy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
New Age Steppers,
Parry Music,
Oneida,
The Victims,
Con Funk Shun,
Unrelated Segments,
Ossler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Slits,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
AZ,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arthur Verocai,
Black Moon,
The Skatalites,
Hardrive,
Reagan Youth,
The Fall,
The Techniques,
Heaven 17,
Eric B and Rakim,
Aloha Tigers,
Rod Modell,
Connie Case,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Supertramp,
Jandek,
Pierre Henry,
The Index,
Brick,
CMW,
The New Christs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
OOIOO,
John Foxx,
The Mummies,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.