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 Gabon and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Soul Sonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
U.S. Maple,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
The Birthday Party,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
UT,
Television Personalities,
Nation of Ulysses,
Echospace,
X-102,
Dennis Brown,
The Slits,
Minutemen,
Audionom,
Juan Atkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Lynne,
The Blues Magoos,
Kayak,
Davy DMX,
Cluster,
The Star Department,
Lower 48,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Christie,
Moebius,
Dawn Penn,
Sarah Menescal,
Heaven 17,
Jacob Miller,
The Monochrome Set,
Circle Jerks,
Adolescents,
The Dirtbombs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Flag,
Derrick Morgan,
Accadde A,
Pere Ubu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
Zero Boys,
Los Fastidios,
The Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
Wings,
Camouflage,
Oneida,
Pole,
Sister Nancy,
Traffic Nightmare,
ABBA,
Public Enemy,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.