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 Congo and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Quantec to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Tom Boy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wire,
Lightning Bolt,
T. Rex,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Soft Cell,
Sam Rivers,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ornette Coleman,
Can,
Unwound,
Donny Hathaway,
Accadde A,
Make Up,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kenny Larkin,
Sarah Menescal,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlback,
Loose Ends,
Girls At Our Best!,
Banda Bassotti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Desert Stars,
B.T. Express,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Scratch Acid,
Thompson Twins,
The Pop Group,
Dead Boys,
MC5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fugs,
Zapp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris Corsano,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lower 48,
Blake Baxter,
Index,
FM Einheit,
Echospace,
The Sonics,
The Cowsills,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Avey Tare,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Aswad,
a-ha,
Gang of Four,
The Buckinghams,
Sugar Minott,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.