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 Cape Verde and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Moon,
Joy Division,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Axelrod,
Theoretical Girls,
Schoolly D,
Alphaville,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Wire,
Thompson Twins,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Half Japanese,
Mantronix,
Banda Bassotti,
Au Pairs,
The Gun Club,
X-102,
Ralphi Rosario,
Neil Young,
Liliput,
UT,
Sister Nancy,
Jerry's Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dark Day,
Moebius,
Flipper,
New York Dolls,
Bronski Beat,
Warren Ellis,
Das Ding,
Suicide,
Jeff Mills,
Ken Boothe,
Heaven 17,
Simply Red,
Make Up,
Yusef Lateef,
The Move,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lungfish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Halsall,
The Real Kids,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
John Foxx,
cv313,
Delta 5,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
PIL,
Slick Rick,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rapeman,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
The J.B.'s,
Isaac Hayes,
The Durutti Column,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.