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 Suriname and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Swell Maps to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moleskins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Anakelly,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lyres,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Peter & Gordon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Maurizio,
T. Rex,
Gang Starr,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Deakin,
Davy DMX,
Pantaleimon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Icehouse,
Q65,
The Fall,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
Spoonie Gee,
Connie Case,
Masters at Work,
Leonard Cohen,
Kurtis Blow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Little Man,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marine Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Brand Nubian,
Pylon,
Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Electric Prunes,
Mad Mike,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joe Finger,
Mark Hollis,
Lucky Dragons,
Rapeman,
Skaos,
The Fuzztones,
Malaria!,
DJ Sneak,
8 Eyed Spy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Amon Düül II,
Terrestrial Tones,
JFA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.