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 Ghana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lindisfarne to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Howard Jones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Rundgren,
The Raincoats,
Gabor Szabo,
Cymande,
Junior Murvin,
Zero Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Graham Central Station,
Grauzone,
The Count Five,
Schoolly D,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Underground Resistance,
Dead Boys,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radio Birdman,
The Motions,
Flash Fearless,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Slits,
The Index,
Lindisfarne,
The Blackbyrds,
John Foxx,
Godley & Creme,
New York Dolls,
Soft Cell,
DJ Style,
The Fuzztones,
Bang On A Can,
Matthew Halsall,
CMW,
Arcadia,
Prince Buster,
Vainqueur,
48th St. Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
The New Christs,
Average White Band,
Joe Finger,
ABBA,
Youth Brigade,
Supertramp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Moby Grape,
A Certain Ratio,
Johnny Clarke,
The Techniques,
Talk Talk,
Von Mondo,
T.S.O.L.,
Matthew Bourne,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.