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 Iran and from Johannesburg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sun City Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
A Certain Ratio,
Sound Behaviour,
Dennis Brown,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roger Hodgson,
Siglo XX,
Warren Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
Heaven 17,
Skaos,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Main Source,
Eric Copeland,
Robert Hood,
Barbara Tucker,
Fela Kuti,
Pantytec,
The Music Machine,
Flipper,
The Beau Brummels,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash,
Accadde A,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Smoke,
Livin' Joy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Zapp,
Oneida,
John Holt,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Toasters,
The Monochrome Set,
the Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maleditus Sound,
CMW,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers,
Wings,
Lou Reed,
Arab on Radar,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.