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 Ireland and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Visage to the grunge 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Ohio Players,
Adolescents,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Stetsasonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Moebius,
Moby Grape,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scratch Acid,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pagans,
Minny Pops,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sex Pistols,
The Motions,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Standells,
Deakin,
The Birthday Party,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
The Victims,
cv313,
Fear,
Chrome,
Kevin Saunderson,
Y Pants,
Yusef Lateef,
Swell Maps,
Jeff Mills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Prince Buster,
Delta 5,
Lou Christie,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Qualms,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
CMW,
Sam Rivers,
Intrusion,
Bootsy Collins,
Lucky Dragons,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ituana,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Real Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hot Snakes,
Glenn Branca,
Vladislav Delay,
Wally Richardson,
Eddi Front,
Gichy Dan,
Ken Boothe,
Connie Case,
Chris Corsano,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.