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 Luxembourg and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Silicon Teens to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
The Gun Club,
Sandy B,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cowsills,
Q65,
The Misunderstood,
Scan 7,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Godley & Creme,
The Gladiators,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joe Finger,
Frankie Knuckles,
China Crisis,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Slits,
the Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Duran Duran,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Young Marble Giants,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
Sight & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Litter,
Fad Gadget,
Shuggie Otis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yazoo,
The Pop Group,
Visage,
Lakeside,
Organ,
The Moody Blues,
Brand Nubian,
Buzzcocks,
David Bowie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Livin' Joy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ossler,
the Germs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wings,
Sun City Girls,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.