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 Nicaragua and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Urselle to the jazz 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Metal Thangz,
The Real Kids,
June of 44,
Outsiders,
Lou Christie,
Blancmange,
Lee Hazlewood,
Terry Callier,
Urselle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Saints,
Kevin Saunderson,
Masters at Work,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Monolake,
Saccharine Trust,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arab on Radar,
Neu!,
Gabor Szabo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Soft Cell,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Wyatt,
The New Christs,
T. Rex,
La Düsseldorf,
Aural Exciters,
Rod Modell,
Visage,
Eric B and Rakim,
MC5,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fatback Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Unrelated Segments,
Suburban Knight,
Johnny Clarke,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moss Icon,
Alice Coltrane,
John Foxx,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dave Gahan,
Radiohead,
Hoover,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.