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 Mongolia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lou Christie to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Charles Mingus,
Cal Tjader,
The Human League,
The Martian,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
H. Thieme,
AZ,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
kango's stein massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pierre Henry,
Lower 48,
Jacques Brel,
Tom Boy,
The Techniques,
The Mojo Men,
Skaos,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Curtis Mayfield,
Connie Case,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Bar-Kays,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nik Kershaw,
8 Eyed Spy,
ABC,
Minnie Riperton,
the Swans,
The Names,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott Heron,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Johnny Clarke,
Derrick Morgan,
Country Teasers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gories,
The Velvet Underground,
Sound Behaviour,
Joe Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
The Busters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs,
Yazoo,
The Cramps,
The Fire Engines,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chris & Cosey,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.