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 Solomon Islands and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Theoretical Girls to the grime 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free,
Derrick May,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
Roger Hodgson,
Janne Schatter,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scientists,
Pulsallama,
Frankie Knuckles,
ABC,
Intrusion,
Freddie Wadling,
The Mojo Men,
D'Angelo,
Eric Dolphy,
Nils Olav,
Danielle Patucci,
Absolute Body Control,
Lalo Schifrin,
Morten Harket,
Scan 7,
Lalann,
Jeff Lynne,
Gong,
Von Mondo,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
A Certain Ratio,
Barrington Levy,
Siglo XX,
the Soft Cell,
Lyres,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Hashim,
The Moleskins,
The Barracudas,
Camouflage,
Arthur Verocai,
Minutemen,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
MDC,
The Count Five,
Inner City,
The Stooges,
Pierre Henry,
Section 25,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stereo Dub,
Beasts of Bourbon,
E-Dancer,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.