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 Liechtenstein and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Tomorrow to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Teasers,
Dark Day,
Magazine,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Subhumans,
The Martian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
X-Ray Spex,
Brick,
The Moleskins,
Supertramp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
T.S.O.L.,
Amazonics,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Bananas,
June of 44,
Wire,
Ronan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Foxx,
Robert Görl,
Tubeway Army,
Jawbox,
Liliput,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Surgeon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ornette Coleman,
Index,
Sister Nancy,
Joey Negro,
Eurythmics,
Echospace,
Quadrant,
JFA,
These Immortal Souls,
The Smoke,
Tommy Roe,
Kevin Saunderson,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Symarip,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Byron Stingily,
Mad Mike,
The Gladiators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Smooth,
Oneida,
New Order,
China Crisis,
The Litter,
Johnny Clarke,
Excepter,
Marshall Jefferson,
Iggy Pop,
Colin Newman,
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You don't know what you really want.