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 Japan and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonic Youth to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Glambeats Corp.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang Gang Dance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Todd Rundgren,
Sparks,
Black Moon,
Kerri Chandler,
Faust,
Camouflage,
Matthew Bourne,
The Mojo Men,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Litter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Matthew Halsall,
Surgeon,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slackers,
Crooked Eye,
Warren Ellis,
Adolescents,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Easy Going,
Newcleus,
Magazine,
Andrew Hill,
Television Personalities,
Joe Finger,
Derrick May,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
PIL,
Leonard Cohen,
Soft Cell,
Hot Snakes,
The Fortunes,
Robert Hood,
Loose Ends,
Jerry's Kids,
Arcadia,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Tremeloes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick Morgan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dual Sessions,
Ken Boothe,
Sonic Youth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Christie,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
David Bowie,
U.S. Maple,
Judy Mowatt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vainqueur,
A Certain Ratio,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.