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 Austria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Animal Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Cybotron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Faust,
Drive Like Jehu,
Icehouse,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eurythmics,
Susan Cadogan,
Franke,
John Holt,
The Evens,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pylon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skarface,
The Sonics,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Sherman,
Janne Schatter,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerri Chandler,
The New Christs,
Delta 5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Section 25,
The Human League,
DNA,
Glenn Branca,
Fear,
Mad Mike,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gichy Dan,
Howard Jones,
Amon Düül II,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Main Source,
Maurizio,
Kas Product,
Harmonia,
Negative Approach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suicide,
The Wake,
Malaria!,
The Birthday Party,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hardrive,
Slave,
Fat Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Minutemen,
Man Parrish,
Fluxion,
Mandrill,
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Black Bananas,
the Swans,
Joyce Sims,
John Foxx,
Bluetip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.