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 Bolivia and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Little Man,
Avey Tare,
The Fuzztones,
Grauzone,
Wings,
The Gories,
Liliput,
In Retrospect,
Suicide,
Lower 48,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rotary Connection,
Eli Mardock,
Pierre Henry,
Whodini,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fatback Band,
Danielle Patucci,
R.M.O.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DJ Sneak,
The Standells,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Rundgren,
Black Bananas,
Television Personalities,
La Düsseldorf,
Anakelly,
Cal Tjader,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television,
Marc Almond,
Faust,
Peter & Gordon,
New Order,
The Mojo Men,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Music Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Dead C,
Thee Headcoats,
Fugazi,
The Moody Blues,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Von Mondo,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.