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 San Marino and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Franke to the disco 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Ponytail,
kango's stein massive,
Popol Vuh,
ABC,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Matthew Halsall,
The Barracudas,
Pylon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Circle Jerks,
Rites of Spring,
The United States of America,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
The J.B.'s,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Stooges,
Jimmy McGriff,
Infiniti,
The Selecter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spandau Ballet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Idris Muhammad,
Godley & Creme,
Aswad,
Fluxion,
Erasure,
Model 500,
Andrew Hill,
Jandek,
Livin' Joy,
Quantec,
The Beau Brummels,
Brick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
World's Most,
Joey Negro,
The Doors,
Tim Buckley,
the Human League,
The Victims,
Scan 7,
The Offenders,
Porter Ricks,
Sonic Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Schoolly D,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Brass Construction,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiohead,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
The Gun Club,
Soft Machine,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.