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 Gambia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
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 Chris & Cosey to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
cv313,
Fat Boys,
Archie Shepp,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q and Not U,
Colin Newman,
Nirvana,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dual Sessions,
Arcadia,
Nas,
Flipper,
John Lydon,
Gichy Dan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flash Fearless,
Wings,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
Piero Umiliani,
Hardrive,
Drexciya,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fire Engines,
This Heat,
Young Marble Giants,
Fatback Band,
Eli Mardock,
The Fugs,
John Cale,
Pole,
Godley & Creme,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Victims,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Echospace,
Audionom,
Magma,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Glenn Branca,
Roy Ayers,
Gong,
Ice-T,
Radiopuhelimet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Buzzcocks,
Youth Brigade,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hot Snakes,
L. Decosne,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mojo Men,
Average White Band,
Mandrill,
OOIOO,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.