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 Sweden and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Stereo Dub to the techno 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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Pantytec,
Lucky Dragons,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Wyatt,
Tres Demented,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rotary Connection,
Eve St. Jones,
Excepter,
The Litter,
Lindisfarne,
T. Rex,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roxy Music,
Audionom,
Man Eating Sloth,
Carl Craig,
Fatback Band,
John Lydon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Shoche,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Associates,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Organ,
CMW,
Nils Olav,
Fugazi,
Erykah Badu,
Bauhaus,
The Knickerbockers,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Basic Channel,
Glambeats Corp.,
ABBA,
Hashim,
The Slackers,
Eurythmics,
In Retrospect,
Sandy B,
Chrome,
The Modern Lovers,
The Slits,
Adolescents,
Sun City Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
X-101,
Porter Ricks,
K-Klass,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Josef K,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gun Club,
Livin' Joy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Mojo Men,
Anakelly,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.